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title = "Microservices In Action - Morgan Bruce"
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date = 2019-08-13
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "microservices", "morgan bruce", "it"]
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[GoodReads summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36579817-microservices-in-action):
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Microservices in Action is a practical book about building and deploying
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microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects with a
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solid grasp of service-oriented development, it tackles the challenge of
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putting microservices into production. You'll begin with an in-depth overview
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of microservice design principles, building on your knowledge of traditional
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systems. Then, you'll start creating a reliable road to production. You'll
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explore examples using Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Container Engine as you
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learn to build clusters and maintain them after deployment. Throughout this
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rich, experience-driven book, you'll move through real-world use cases
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including a continuous delivery pipeline, production monitoring, and practical
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techniques for scaling and maintaining a healthy system.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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For an "In Action" title, there is very little "Action" going on. Not that the
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book lacks information: There is plenty of theoretical information, although a
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lot is hidden in "cohesive" adjectives: "If you do this, the service will not
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be cohesive", "doing so will make it more cohesive"... and what the author
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means by "cohesive" is never explained -- I'd ask the author to replace every
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reference to cohesive with a proper explanation.
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Also, there are a lot of images. Not that images by themselves is bad, but when
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they are used for the obvious, it really irks me -- specially 'cause I read
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those books on a "black background with white letters" and images do not fit
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that properly, using a white background that usually just hurts my eyes. And by
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"used for the obvious", there are images follow the description of "A and B
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communicate with C" and a large image showing `A --> C <-- B`; was that really
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necessary?
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The intro says the code is in Python, and that was something that I'd really
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like to see. There is very little code in this book and the parts shown are
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basically "look at this library" instead of focusing on what it really does; a
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library for retrying is nice and all, but would it be so hard to write the
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code, even if that code would be somewhat longer, to show the point you're
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trying to make instead of being just an example of a library?
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Speaking of code, there is also a long discussion about deploying
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microservices, which is a good thing, but the author decided that it would use
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Google Cloud Platform and every single explanation focuses more on how to
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deploy on GCP instead of actually discussing deployment.
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