Reliability Overview

We have made a long journey through all previous chapters of this book and completed the part of the book dedicated to microservice development basics. So far, you have learned how to bootstrap microservices, write tests, set up service discovery, use synchronous and asynchronous communication between your microservices, and serialize the data between them using different formats, as well as how to deploy the services and verify that their APIs work.

This chapter begins the third part of the book, dedicated to more advanced concepts of microservice development, including reliability, observability, maintainability, and scalability. In this chapter, we will cover some practical aspects of microservice development that are important for ensuring your services can operate well under many conditions, including failure scenarios, changes in network traffic, and unexpected service shutdowns.

In this chapter, we will cover various techniques and processes that can...