Preface

The goal of this book is to introduce you to some of the most popular and newest technologies and frameworks that will help you build and deploy microservices at scale. With the current evolution in this space, it is really difficult to keep up with all the new frameworks and tools. If you are an open source fan like me, you would already know that you have to spend a lot of time in trying out these new frameworks and libraries in order to understand their potential and the exact problem that they are trying to solve. Of course, each framework would have been built for a specific purpose, and you will often end up in a situation where you don’t have a silver bullet for all your microservice concerns. In this book, you will learn some of the most commonly used frameworks and technologies that help you build and deploy microservices at scale.

Throughout this book, we will be sticking to a specific application and will try to build upon that application. For example, we will be using the same application to configure service discovery, monitoring, streaming, log management, and load balancing. So by the end of this book, you will have a fully loaded microservice that demonstrates every aspect of a microservice.

This book covers several libraries and frameworks that help you build and deploy microservices. After reading this book, you will not be an expert on all of them, but you will know where to start and how to proceed. That’s the whole intention of this book. I hope you'll like it. Good luck microservicing!