Microservices for Startups
Practical advice for teams considering microservices.
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What's Inside
Learn how to determine proper service boundaries, break apart your monolith, and more.
How teams get microservices wrong from the start
There’s a lot of ambiguity and debate about what microservices are.
Should you always start with a monolith?
Conventional wisdoms says so but are there exceptions?
Microservice Boundaries: 5 characteristics to guide your design
Are your microservices too small? Too tightly coupled? This design guide can help.
Development and Dev Ops
How microservices impacts your development and dev ops processes.
Knowing Your End-Game
Most organizations are not clear on why they want to adopt microservices.
Determining Service Boundaries
Deciding what should be a service and where to draw the lines is tricky.
Breaking Up a Monolith
A look inside several real-world examples.
Designing a Successful Culture
You can't make microservices successful without the right culture.
Testing
This is always one of the first questions that comes up about microservices.
Security
Microservices introduce a number of unexpected security vulnerabilities.
Structuring Teams
Microservices radically change how you can structure and manage teams.
Real-world Architectures
A look inside three real-life microservices architectures.
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