Practical Microservices

by Ethan Garofolo

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Telling a Tale of a Different Kind of Keyboard
• What This Book Is
• What This Book Isn’t
• Separating Principles from Implementations
• Using This Book
• Using Node.js
• Strapping In
• Part I. Fundamentals

1. You Have a New Project

• Kicking Off Video Tutorials
• Building the Bones
• Mounting Middleware
• Injecting Dependencies
• Taking the Server for a Spin and Starting the Database
• Serving the Home Page
• Connecting the Home Page Application
• Mounting the Home Application into Express
• Building the Record Views Application
• Recording State Changes
• Charting a New Course
• What You’ve Done So Far

2. Writing Messages

• Unmasking the Monolith
• Trying to Compress Water
• Extracting “Microservices”
• Defining Services
• Getting Components to Do Things
• Representing Messages in Code
• Naming Messages
• Storing State as Events
• Storing Messages in Streams
• Defining Component Boundaries
• Recording Video Views
• Writing Your First Message
• (Re)configuring the Record-Viewings Application
• Hanging a Lantern
• What You’ve Done So Far

3. Putting Data in a Message Store

• Defining Requirements
• Fleshing Out Message Structure
• Surveying Message DB
• Scaffolding the Message Store Code
• Connecting to Message DB
• Writing write
• Adding Optimistic Concurrency Control to Our Writes