Production-Ready Microservices
by Susan Fowler · first published 2016
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…recommend becoming familiar with the 12 factor app methodology (https://12factor.net) and reading the following books: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Designing-Fine... https://www.amazon.com/Production-Ready-Microservices-Standa... https://www.amazon.com/Microservice-Architecture-Aligning-Pr...
on “Ask HN: What are some sources to learn about microservices architecture?” ↗…is that you shouldn't go into microservices without knowing the lessons learned at places that have been doing it for years. Or without knowing why you want microservices. For us it was a subset of "Production-Ready Microservices" by Susan Fowler. (It was so comprehensive we didn't need all of the things the book suggests you implement).
on “Give Me Back My Monolith” ↗…"Seeking SRE" makes it clear that in most places, the notion of "platform engineering" varies tremendously. I don't know of any authors that have addressed this explicitly other than Susan Fowler in "Production Ready Microservices" who writes: Another important part of microservice adoption is the creation of a microservice ecosystem. Typically (or, at least, hopefully), a company running a large monolithic application…
on “The Rise of Platform Engineering” ↗…for a journalist to do so. Siraj Raval might be a published author, but he still has next to no experience being a journalist. Here's the link in case anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Production-Ready-Microservices-Stan...
on “Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer” ↗Sounds terrible and nobody should but subjected to this sort of work environment. Not sure how the story ends because I stopped reading just after ... "which I wrote about in my bestselling (!!!) book Production-Ready Microservices."
on “Former engineer says Uber is a nightmare of sexism” ↗