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Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

By : Chanaka Fernando
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Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

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By: Chanaka Fernando
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Overview of this book

Building a scalable microservices platform that caters to business demands is critical to the success of that platform. In a microservices architecture, inter-service communication becomes a bottleneck when the platform scales. This book provides a reference architecture along with a practical example of how to implement it for building microservices-based platforms with NATS as the messaging backbone for inter-service communication. In Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, you’ll learn how to build a scalable and manageable microservices platform with NATS. The book starts by introducing concepts relating to microservices architecture, inter-service communication, messaging backbones, and the basics of NATS messaging. You’ll be introduced to a reference architecture that uses these concepts to build a scalable microservices platform and guided through its implementation. Later, the book touches on important aspects of platform securing and monitoring with the help of the reference implementation. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices to follow when integrating with existing platforms and the future direction of microservices architecture and NATS messaging as a whole. By the end of this microservices book, you’ll have developed the skills to design and implement microservices platforms with NATS.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Section 1: The Basics of Microservices Architecture and NATS
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Section 1: The Basics of Microservices Architecture and NATS
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Microservice Architecture
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Microservice Architecture
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The evolution of distributed systems
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What is a microservice architecture?
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Characteristics of the microservice architecture
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Breaking down a monolith into microservices
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Advantages of the microservice architecture
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Summary
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Further reading
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Chapter 2: Why Is Messaging Important in the Microservice Architecture?
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Chapter 2: Why Is Messaging Important in the Microservice Architecture?
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Messaging patterns used in distributed systems
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Communication requirements of a microservice architecture
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Common messaging technologies used in a microservice architecture
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Summary
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Chapter 3: What Is NATS Messaging?
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Chapter 3: What Is NATS Messaging?
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Technical requirements
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History of NATS
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Introduction to NATS
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How does the NATS protocol work?
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Advanced NATS concepts
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Advantages of NATS
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Summary
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Further reading
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Section 2: Building Microservices with NATS
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Section 2: Building Microservices with NATS
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Chapter 4: How to Use NATS in a Microservice Architecture
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Chapter 4: How to Use NATS in a Microservice Architecture
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Technical requirements
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Understanding the challenges of the microservice architecture
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What is inter-service communication and why is it important?
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Advantages of using NATS for inter-service communication
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Summary
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Chapter 5: Designing a Microservice Architecture with NATS
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Chapter 5: Designing a Microservice Architecture with NATS
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Understanding the key components of a microservice architecture
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Understanding how NATS is positioned in the microservice architecture
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Reference architecture for microservices with NATS
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Further reading
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Chapter 6: A Practical Example of Microservices with NATS
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Chapter 6: A Practical Example of Microservices with NATS
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Technical requirements
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Understanding the use case of a hospital OPD
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Defining the solution architecture
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Deployment architecture
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Implementing microservices
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Setting up the NATS server cluster
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Trying out the sample application
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Chapter 7: Securing a Microservices Architecture with NATS
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Chapter 7: Securing a Microservices Architecture with NATS
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Technical requirements
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Understanding security in the context of a microservices architecture
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Securing external communication
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Securing ISC
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Using NATS to secure ISC
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Chapter 8: Observability with NATS in a Microservices Architecture
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Chapter 8: Observability with NATS in a Microservices Architecture
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Technical requirements
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Observability in a microservices context
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Observability features of NATS
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Using NATS observability in a microservices architecture
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Section 3: Best Practices and Future Developments
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Section 3: Best Practices and Future Developments
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Chapter 9: How Microservices and NATS Coexist with Integration Platforms
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Chapter 9: How Microservices and NATS Coexist with Integration Platforms
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Technical requirements
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Understanding the brownfield enterprise software system
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How do integration platforms work in an enterprise software system?
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How do microservices and NATS integrate with the integration platform?
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How to build an enterprise platform with microservices, NATS, and the integration platform
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Setting up observability
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Chapter 10: Future of the Microservice Architecture and NATS
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Chapter 10: Future of the Microservice Architecture and NATS
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Technical requirements
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Challenges of the proposed microservice architecture with NATS
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What are the new developments in the microservice architecture?
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What are the new developments in the NATS messaging technology?
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How can a microservice architecture with NATS be improved?
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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to the Microservices Architecture, provides a comprehensive introduction to the microservices architecture.

Chapter 2, Why Is Messaging Important in a Microservices Architecture?, discusses different messaging technologies and why microservices architectures require messaging.

Chapter 3, What Is NATS Messaging?, explores the NATS messaging technology by covering the concepts with practical examples.

Chapter 4, How to Use NATS in a Microservices Architecture, discusses the possible ways to use NATS messaging in a microservices context.

Chapter 5, Designing a Microservices Architecture with NATS, provides a reference architecture using a real-world application to build a microservices-based application with NATS.

Chapter 6, A Practical Example of Microservices with NATS, provides a reference implementation of an application using the microservices architecture along with NATS.

Chapter 7, Securing a Microservices Architecture with NATS, discusses the security of the overall microservices architecture, including NATS, with examples on securing NATS servers.

Chapter 8, Observability with NATS in a Microservices Architecture, explores various monitoring and troubleshooting requirements and available technologies with an example implementation.

Chapter 9, How Microservices and NATS Co-exist with Integration Platforms, discusses the aspects related to the integration of microservices-based applications with other enterprise systems.

Chapter 10, Future of the Microservices Architecture and NATS, explores the new developments in the microservices and NATS domains.

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