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The advantages of splitting up monolithic applications into microservices
How to develop, deploy, introduce, and deprecate microservices
Ways to achieve greater microservices efficiency
About mitigating tradeoffs that come with microservices adoption, including organizational sprawl and technical debt
After splitting up a monolithic application or building a microservices ecosystem from scratch, you may be left wondering what’s next. In this practical book, author Susan Fowler explores the challenges of using microservices in production environments with real user traffic, drawing from her experience standardizing over a thousand microservices at Uber.
This excerpt contains chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, and Appendix A.
Susan J. Fowler currently works as an engineer on the infrastructure team at Stripe. Previously, she worked on microservice standardization at Uber, developed application platforms and infrastructure at several small startups, and studied particle physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
