Building Microservices

VII · System design & architecture

Building Microservices

Sam Newman · 2021 (2nd ed.) · 618 pp.

What it does

When to extract services, how to keep them autonomous, what breaks at the seams. The 2nd edition is heavier on what to NOT do than the first.

Who should read it

Engineers staring at a monolith deciding if it's time. Or post-extraction, debugging the mess.

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