Microservices and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Remember when service-oriented architecture (SOA) was all the rage? Companies jumped in before fully understanding SOA's advantages and disadvantages, and struggled to make this complex architecture work. Today, we're poised to repeat this same experience with microservices - only this time we’re prepared. This ebook walks you through the ten most common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for avoiding them.

Istio is the implementation of a service mesh that creates resilience in your applications as you connect, manage, and secure microservices. This book introduces you to several key microservices capabilities that Istio provides on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.

This book gives a broad understanding of increasingly popular Microservices architectural style, and provides some real-life examples of how you can develop applications using the microservices approach with IBM Bluemix. The source code for all of these sample scenarios can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/).

For anyone who has been developing web applications for 10 years or more, the recent rise of microservices sounds a lot like a development approach we already knew - service-oriented architecture (SOA). Both architectures are focused on breaking up large monolithic applications into collections of smaller independent services, and both come with the promise of simplifying development.

This guide is an introduction to developing microservices-based applications and managing them using containers. It discusses architectural design and implementation approaches using .NET Core and Docker containers.