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Microservices Patterns

By: Chris Richardson
Narrated by: Aiden Humphreys, Lou Fernandez
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Summary

Microservices Patterns teaches you how to develop and deploy production-quality microservices-based applications. This invaluable set of design patterns builds on decades of distributed system experience, adding new patterns for writing services and composing them into systems that scale and perform reliably under real-world conditions. More than just a patterns catalog, this practical guide offers experience-driven advice to help you design, implement, test, and deploy your microservices-based application. 

about the technology
Successfully developing microservices-based applications requires mastering a new set of architectural insights and practices. In this unique book, microservice architecture pioneer and Java champion Chris Richardson collects, catalogues, and explains 44 patterns that solve problems such as service decomposition, transaction management, querying, and inter-service communication. 

what's inside 

  • How (and why!) to use the microservice architecture 
  • Service decomposition strategies 
  • Transaction management and querying patterns 
  • Effective testing strategies 
  • Deployment patterns including containers and serverlessices 

about the listener
Written for enterprise developers familiar with standard enterprise application architecture. Examples are in Java. 

about the author
Chris Richardson is a Java champion, a JavaOne rock star, author of Manning's POJOs in Action, and creator of the original CloudFoundry.com. 

"A comprehensive overview of the challenges teams face when moving to microservices, with industry-tested solutions to these problems." (Tim Moore, Lightbend) 

"Pragmatic treatment of an important new architectural landscape." (Simeon Leyzerzon, Excelsior Software) 

"A solid compendium of information that will quicken your migration to this modern cloud-based architecture." (John Guthrie, Dell/EMC)

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The best book I've come across on microservices

Gets the balance just right between patterns and practical examples. Narration is very listenable and the technical topics mostly work well with audio. I bought it to listen to when commuting on the train, but I have to admit that I was sufficiently impressed that I bought a paper copy too. This will be my go to reference for microservice patterns and design for at least a year or two.

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Great content ruined by the narrator

I have this book in print as well, I wanted the audio book to complement that so I could listen whilst walking the dog. Unfortunately, the narrator is excruciatingly slow and dull, I tried speeding it up but it’s not for me. It is a shame Chris didn’t read it himself as he speaks well in the talks I’ve watched.

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Reasonable content but a poor effort at an audio version

The content is fine, perhaps good in print form, but it seems that no effort has been put into converting it to audio, unlike some other books on similar topics. The first reader is incredibly slow (though 1.3x or higher is ok) and seems to read the whole book verbatim, including text like “read more at this link” or “in this example we see …” but no context is given rendering some sentences meaningless. The weird thing is they could have just left them out entirely.

The readers are ok though pronunciations are inconsistent with some acronyms read as words and some some acronyms commonly spoken as words read as acronyms (who reads a .org website address as “dot o r g”?). The second reader comes in near the end for no apparent reason, reads much faster and has different pronunciations - partly just American vs British English but in other places because they also haven’t been briefed on the industry norms which makes it jarring.

All in all I don’t necessarily regret listening as I did learn a few things but I would recommend finding an alternative if you’re hunting for books on the subject matter. Hopefully one that actually tries to be an audiobook.

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Changing the narrator disrupted the rhythm.

Very good book to familiarize oneself with microservices. Narrator changing was really disruptive though, suddenly I had to pause multiple times and relisten over and over.

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Clear well structured introduction

Sometimes difficult to follow when the narrator is referring to the diagrams and code listings, but for an audio book version of a technical subject I still found it helpful in drawing up plans for migrating an eight year old monolith to new architecture.
More real world examples of the experience of developers and architects creating microservices would have been helpful but the demo application is generic enough for a simple system.
Unfortunately the narrator changes for the last few chapters.

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