Deliver microservices architecture, step-by-step: from defining business problems through development, deployment, and monitoring

Increasingly, organizations are modernizing application development by integrating open source technologies into a holistic architecture for delivering high-quality workloads to the cloud. This is a complete, step-by-step guide to building flexible microservices architecture by leveraging Microsoft Azure cloud services, together with key open source technologies such as Java, Node.JS, .NET Core and Angular. Through a realistic case study project, expert Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka guide you through every step of technical implementation required to achieve value: establishing end-to-end infrastructure, developing cloud-native applications, automating deployments, monitoring operations, and more.

Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka show how to:

• Define application features and business requirements, and map them onto microservices using modeling techniques
• Design microservices solution architecture that enables high-quality workloads
• Develop an application front-end, and build microservices with open source technologies
• Leverage Azure Kubernetes Services for Docker container orchestration
• Use various patterns to build reliable and resilient microservices
• Enforce microservices app security, and use Azure AD B2C for user authentication/authorization
• Establish an API gateway that provides a unified “front door” to back-end microservices
• Set up continuous integration and deployment with Azure DevOps
• Monitor microservices with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights

About This Book

Will help IT professionals build new applications, modernize existing systems, migrate workloads, improve app management, and more.

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solutions architect with nearly 20 years of experience in software development, consultancy, and solution architecture. He has worked with various clients across the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and he currently works as a Senior Customer Engineer at Microsoft, based in Dubai. He specializes mainly in application development using .NET and other OSS technologies, Microsoft Azure, and DevOps. He is a prolific writer and has published several books on enterprise application architecture, .NET Core, VS Code, and JavaScript, and he has written numerous technical articles on various sites. He likes to talk about technology and has delivered various technical sessions around the world.

Chapter 1 Introduction to microservices