Patterns of Microservices. Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to microservices architecture, updated with contemporary approaches, tools, and design patterns.
The first version of the book helped tens of thousands of developers create reliable and scalable microservices applications. In the second edition, Chris Richardson, drawing from years of experience in consulting organizations on implementing microservices, shares new ideas in the areas of design, testing, refactoring, and deployment strategies, so you can deliver software solutions faster and more reliably.
From the book, you will learn how to:
- determine the requirements for a microservice application;
- design microservice architecture;
- test and deploy the system;
- gradually transition from a monolith to microservices.
Microservice architecture, combined with Team Topologies and DevOps approaches, has become an integral part of large-scale enterprise system development, ensuring continuous delivery of changes and quick feedback. The book describes dozens of proven patterns in practice—from service decomposition to inter-service interaction—helping to build flexible, evolving systems without conflicts between teams.
This is not just a pattern reference guide—the author offers a balanced and pragmatic view on microservices, showcasing their advantages, limitations, and real-world application scenarios. The updated edition includes lessons learned from nearly a decade of implementing microservices across various industries and provides valuable recommendations on when it is truly worth using microservice architecture and how to correctly scale services.
