Developing microservices

Our objective in this section is to give you a glimpse of developing cloud-native applications. Microservices are 100% cloud-native par excellence, hence the reason why we use them to illustrate our purpose. We will not cover the entire spectrum of microservices, because the topic deserves an entire book on its own. We assume that you know already what microservices are, and we will focus on some technical bits only.

In Chapter 3, Infrastructure Design, we reviewed the different infrastructure options at our disposal to host microservices. Our conclusion was that, at the time of writing, in Azure, AKS is the most suitable choice. We stressed the fact that service meshes play a great role in terms of the observability, security, deployment, and resilience of a microservices architecture. We also highlighted some AKS-killing features, such as self-healing, cluster, and pod auto-scaling, to name a few. All of these infrastructure features help to build resilient...