Welcome to our five-part series about microservices and a legolized software development. We’d like to share our lessons learned about architecture, development environment and security considerations with you. We will also explain some issues we stumbled over and what solutions we chose to solve them.
I) In the first part, we present an example microservice structure, with multiple services, a foreign API interface and a reverse proxy that also allows load balancing.
II) Part two will take a closer look on how caching improves the heavy and frequent communication within our setup. [read]
III) Security is a topic that always occurs with microservices. We’ll present our solution for managing both, authentication and authorization at one single point. [read]
IV) An automated development environment will save you. We explain how we set up Jenkins, Docker and Git to work seamlessly together. [read]
V) We finish with a concluding review about the use of microservices in small projects and give an overview about our top stumbling blocks. [read]
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