Production-Ready Microservices

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1. sascha_slMar 2019
   The main thing this article demonstrates is that you shouldn't go into microservices without knowing the lessons learned at places that have been doing it for years. Or without knowing why you want microservices.

   For us it was a subset of "Production-Ready Microservices" by Susan Fowler. (It was so comprehensive we didn't need all of the things the book suggests you implement).

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2. bincyberSep 2017
   I would recommend becoming familiar with the 12 factor app methodology (https://12factor.net) and reading the following books:

   https://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Designing-Fine...

   https://www.amazon.com/Production-Ready-Microservices-Standa...

   https://www.amazon.com/Microservice-Architecture-Aligning-Pr...

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3. halbrittJun 2020
   People view SRE in many difference ways. If you were to go through the Google SRE book, there's nothing explicit in there about building "platform" or doing any infrastructure engineering.

   It's is a given that SRE build tooling, but most of the SRE-focused work, as described in that book is around improving the resilience of a given application or product. Addressing production readiness, defining SLOs, and handling incident response.

   There are platform specific SRE teams at Google, but there's not much published about how they get about creating platform.

   The book "Seeking SRE" makes it clear that in most places, the notion of "platform engineering" varies tremendously.

   I don't know of any authors that have addressed this explicitly other than Susan Fowler in "Production Ready Microservices" who writes:

     Another important part of microservice adoption is the 
     creation of a microservice ecosystem. Typically (or, at 
     least, hopefully), a company running a large monolithic 
     application will have a dedicated infrastructure 
     organization that is responsible for designing, building, 
     and maintaining the infrastructure that the application runs 
     on. When a monolith is split into microservices, the 
     responsibilities of the infrastructure organization for 
     providing a stable platform for microservices to be 
     developed and run on grows drastically in importance. The 
     infrastructure teams must provide microservice teams with 
     stable infrastructure that abstracts away the majority of 
     the complexity of the interactions between microservices.

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4. aaron-leboJun 2017
   Writing a book does not make you a journalist. It makes you an author. Not that it's not impressive, but it's not proof of experience as a journalist.

   They are different jobs. You can write a book without doing any investigative reporting, but it would be hard for a journalist to do so. Siraj Raval might be a published author, but he still has next to no experience being a journalist.

   Here's the link in case anyone is interested:

   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Production-Ready-Microservices-Stan...

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5. keithchambersFeb 2017
   Sounds terrible and nobody should but subjected to this sort of work environment.

   Not sure how the story ends because I stopped reading just after ... "which I wrote about in my bestselling (!!!) book Production-Ready Microservices."

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