Gain insights into real-world microservice implementation, exploring tech stacks, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. Learn about synchronous and asynchronous integrations with hands-on coding demonstrations.

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Microservices are one of the most important software architecture trends, but it’s one thing to define an architecture and quite another to implement it. 

This course focuses on the nitty-gritty details of real-world implementation. You’ll learn recipes for tech stacks that can be used to implement microservices, as well as the pros and cons of each. 

You’ll start by exploring some fundamental concepts for implementing microservices. Within each concept, you’ll learn about the different technologies used to implement it. The technologies include: Frontend Integration with Edge Side Includes (ESI), asynchronous microservices with Kafka and REST feeds, synchronous microservices with the Netflix stack and Consul, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry. Each technology you learn about is described and then demonstrated with real code. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be a microservice pro. Whether you’re a software engineer or an engineering manager, this course will prove useful throughout your career.

Microservice Architecture: Practical Implementation

This chapter deals with the integration of microservices based on the **Atom data format**. An [example](https://github.com/ewolff/microservice-atom) is provided which uses a simple scenario to illustrate what integration with the help of Atom and REST can look like.


# Chapter walkthrough
The readers will learn:

* **What** the Atom format is, **how** it functions, and **how it can be exploited** for the asynchronous communication of microservices.

* What **alternatives to Atom** exist for the asynchronous communication via REST/HTTP and what **advantages and disadvantages** the different formats have.

* How **HTTP and REST can be efficiently used**, not only for asynchronous
communication.

* What an implementation of an **asynchronous system based on HTTP, REST, and Atom can look like**.

In this lesson, we'll look at a quick walkthrough of what this chapter holds for us.

Preface

Self-contained Systems

Concept: Frontend Integration

Recipe: Links and Client-side Integration

Recipe: Server-side Integration using Edge Side Includes (ESI)

Concept: Asynchronous Microservices

Recipe: Messaging and Kafka

Recipe: Asynchronous Communication with Atom and REST

Concept: Synchronous Microservices

Recipe: REST with the Netflix Stack

Recipe: REST with Consul and Apache httpd

Concept: Microservices Platforms

Recipe: Docker Containers with Kubernetes

Recipe: PaaS with Cloud Foundry

Appendix

Introduction