What is inside the eBook: Real-world examples from top engineering teams at Uber, Spotify, and Netflix, on how they’ve successfully navigated the transition. As well as ⬇️ • Defining service boundaries and decomposition of a monolithic service • Benefits and drawbacks of decentralized data management and best patterns and techniques to address it. • Interservice communication: picking the right communication patterns, and handling synchronous and asynchronous communication. Details of event-driven architectures, protocols to use, and how to handle communication failures. • Service discovery, load balancing, and service meshes. • Guidance on implemented monitoring and observability. • Testing and deployment strategies for microservices. • How and where to implement and enforce security and access control. • Challenges of creating performant and scalable services. • How to navigate the organizational and cultural shift. • Thoughts on collaboration and code ownership when building microservices. We hope you enjoy!