Production-Ready Microservices

Susan Fowler is a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber Technologies, where she splits her time between running a production-readiness initiative across all Uber microservices and embedding within business-critical teams to bring their services to a production-ready state. She worked on application platforms and infrastructure at several small startups before joining Uber, and, before that, studied particle physics at Penn, where she searched for supersymmetry and designed hardware for the ATLAS and CMS detectors.

Chapter 1Microservices
From Monoliths to Microservices
Microservice Architecture
The Microservice Ecosystem
Organizational Challenges
Chapter 2Production-Readiness
The Challenges of Microservice Standardization
Availability: The Goal of Standardization
Production-Readiness Standards
Implementing Production-Readiness
Chapter 3Stability and Reliability
Principles of Building Stable and Reliable Microservices
The Development Cycle
The Deployment Pipeline
Dependencies
Routing and Discovery
Deprecation and Decommissioning
Evaluate Your Microservice
Chapter 4Scalability and Performance
Principles of Microservice Scalability and Performance
Knowing the Growth Scale
Efficient Use of Resources
Resource Awareness
Capacity Planning
Dependency Scaling
Traffic Management
Task Handling and Processing
Scalable Data Storage
Evaluate Your Microservice
Chapter 5Fault Tolerance and Catastrophe-Preparedness
Principles of Building Fault-Tolerant Microservices
Avoiding Single Points of Failure
Catastrophes and Failure Scenarios
Resiliency Testing
Failure Detection and Remediation
Incidents and Outages
Evaluate Your Microservice
Chapter 6Monitoring
Principles of Microservice Monitoring
Key Metrics
Logging
Dashboards
Alerting
On-Call Rotations
Evaluate Your Microservice
Chapter 7Documentation and Understanding
Principles of Microservice Documentation and Understanding
Microservice Documentation
Microservice Understanding
Evaluate Your Microservice
Appendix Production-Readiness Checklist
A Production-Ready Service Is Stable and Reliable
A Production-Ready Service Is Scalable and Performant
A Production-Ready Service Is Fault Tolerant and Prepared for Any Catastrophe
A Production-Ready Service Is Properly Monitored
A Production-Ready Service Is Documented and Understood
Appendix Evaluate Your Microservice
Stability and Reliability
Scalability and Performance
Fault Tolerance and Catastrophe-Preparedness
Monitoring
Documentation and Understanding