Microservices Architecture
This chapter explores microservices architecture, highlighting its key characteristics, such as autonomy and specialization, and presenting its benefits and challenges.
The chapter transitions the online auction client-server project into a microservices architecture, using it as a case study. It discusses strategies for identifying the boundaries of the domains through the bounded contexts of the domain-driven design (DDD), refactoring, and selecting the appropriate databases based on the CAP theorem.
Additionally, this chapter discusses implementing clean architecture within a microservices context. The chapter offers detailed guidance on designing and implementing microservices, including synchronous communication using the RestClient and monitoring and management with Spring Boot Actuator.
The chapter ends with practical steps for containerizing microservices using Docker and Docker Compose and emphasizes the benefits of containerization for...