Appendix B. Further Resources

Each of the following resources will provide additional insight and help you to develop your own perspective on microservices-based architecture:

• Martin Fowler on “Microservices”. A gentle introduction and a first approach at a definition.

• Martin Fowler on “MicroservicePremium”. Some further explanation on what microservices and enterprises mean.

• “The microservice resource guide” by Martin Fowler. Collecting various articles and discussions along this topic.

• Netflix Open Source Software Center. Contains links and further information on the frameworks and libraries referenced throughout the book.

• Microservices at Netflix: Best Practices and Tools. One of many presentations from the Netflix team that gives a good overview of the company’s work.

• “Microservices Design Patterns” by Arun Gupta. The first collection of patterns for the newly emerging architecture style. Arun is also featuring more microservices-related posts on his blog.

• Mark Little, “What is so Special about Microservices?” Deals with how microservices reflect an evolution in our understanding of how to build services.

• Christian Posta, “The Real Success Story of Microservices Architectures”.

• Patterns and Best Practices for Enterprise Integration is the bible for system integration and has a complete implementation in Apache Camel. While not primarily focused on microservices, it contains a well-crafted set of patterns to use for integration.

• Microservices in Fabric8. A brief introduction about how to work with microservices in Fabric8.

• Michael Nyguard’s Release It!.

• Sam Newman’s Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems.

• Mark Little on “Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer”. A gentle yet complete introduction to the distributed systems theory for systems engineers.

• Daniel Bryant interviews Randy Shoup on microservices, the reality of Conway’s Law, and evolutionary architecture.

• Mark Little, “Transactions and Microservices”, plus an updated blog post with additional information.

• Simon Brown asks the question, “If you can’t build a monolith, what makes you think microservices are the answer?”.

• “Java EE, WildFly and Microservices on Docker”. This is a blog post to get you started with Java EE, WildFly, and microservices on Docker.

• Christian Posta, “The Cold Hard Truth About Microservices—vjBug”. You’ve tried all the past hyped technologies and architectures, but those promises have been underdelivering. Can microservices help here?