Useful Microservices Reading List

We don't need more useless awesome lists. We need useful reading lists that help us learn various practical aspects about a topic.

This repository has list of articles and videos that cover practical aspects of Microservices. It is not your just another awesome list. Its main purpose is to be useful rather than just another stupid list.

Monolith first

1. 📝 Monolith First - Link
2. 📝 In Defence of the Monolith, Link 1 and Link 2
3. 📝 The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 - Link
4. 📹 Majestic Modular Monoliths - Link
5. 📝 The Majestic Monolith - Link
6. 📝 About When Not to Do Microservices - Link
7. 📝 Modules vs. microservices - Link
8. 📝 Microservices Last Resort - Link

When and Why Microservices?

1. 📝 Microservice Prerequisites - Link
2. 📝 Microservices Architecture Guidelines - Link
3. 📝 Microservices: To Do or Not to Do - LInk - Link
4. 📝 Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes - Link
5. 📹 Microservices by Martin Fowler - Link

Should it be a Microservice?

1. 📝 Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind - Link

Mono-repo vs Repo per service

1. 📝 Advantages of monorepos - Link
2. 📝 Monorepos: Please don’t! - Link
3. 📹 Attack of the Monorepos - Link
4. 📝 Put your Microservices in a Monorepo - Link

Patterns

1. 📝 Communication in a microservice architecture - Link
2. 📝 On Pass-through services - Link

Shared libraries

1. 📝 Why “Don’t Use Shared Libraries in Microservices” is Bad Advice - Link

Data Consistency

2. 📝 Data consistency in microservices architecture - Link
3. 📹 Managing Data in Microservices - Link
4. 📝 Airbnb: Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System - Link

DDD and CQRS

1. 📝 Tackle Business Complexity in a Microservice with DDD and CQRS Patterns - Link
2. 📝 Core Domain Patterns - Link
3. 📝 Datomic: Event Sourcing without the hassle - Link

Caching

1. 📝 Caching strategies - Link
2. 📝 Blazing Fast Data Lookup in a Microservices World - Link

Testing

1. 📝 Airbnb: Building an Effective Test Pipeline in a Service Oriented World - Link
2. 📝 Testing in Production, the safe way - Link

Platform

1. 📝 Checklist: what had to be done before deploying microservices to production - Link
2. 📝 Why you need a microservices management platform and how to build it - Link

Network, Proxies, and Service Mesh

1. 📝 Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying - Link
2. 📝 The evolution of L7, proxies, and microservices - Link
3. 📝 How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy - Link
4. 📝 Everything We Learned Running Istio In Production - Link

Security

1. 📹 Security and Microservices - Link
2. 📹 Practical Microservice Security - Link
3. 📹 Top 10 Security Best Practices to secure your Microservices - Link

Observability

1. 📝 Distributed Tracing — we’ve been doing it wrong - Link
2. 📝 Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs - Link

Microservices Governance

1. 📝 Microservices Technical Governance - Link

Monolithic to Microservices

1. 📝 Shopify: Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity - Link
2. 📹 Monolith Decomposition Patterns - Link
3. 📝 3 Strategies for implementing a microservices architecture - Link
4. 📝 Untangling Microservices, or Balancing Complexity in Distributed Systems - Link
5. 📝 GitHub’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices - Link

Microservices to Monolithic

1. 📝 Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices - Link
2. 📹 To Microservices and Back Again - Link

People

1. 📝 Forget monoliths vs. microservices. Cognitive load is what matters. - Link
2. 📹 Monoliths vs Microservices is Missing the Point—Start with Team Cognitive Load - Link

Microservices Survey

1. 📖 State Of Microservices 2020 - Link

Real world Microservices architecture

1. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Netflix - Link
2. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Medium - Link
3. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Uber - Link 1 and Link 2
4. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Twitter - Link 1, Link 2, and Link 3
5. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Amazon - Link
6. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Airbnb - Link 1 and Link 2
7. 📝 Microservice Architecture at Zolando - Link

Microservices Anti-patterns and Pitfalls

1. 📝 Microservices antipatterns and pitfalls - Link
2. 📝 11 Reasons Why You Are Going To Fail With Microservices - Link
3. 📹 To Microservices and Back Again - Link
4. 📝 Microservices pitfalls - Link
5. 📝 Why I stopped using Microservices - Link
6. 📝 Seven Microservices Anti-patterns - Link