What this book covers

Chapter 1, Microservices – Getting to Know the Buzzword, lays the foundation of concepts of Microservices and explores the scenarios, where Microservices are best suited for your application.

Chapter 2, Microsoft Azure Platform and Services Primer, provides a very fast-paced overview of Microsoft Azure as a platform for hosting internet-scale applications.

Chapter 3, Understanding Azure Service Fabric, explains the basic concepts and architecture of Azure Service Fabric.

Chapter 4, Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables, talks about building and deploying applications as Guest Executables on a Service Fabric cluster.

Chapter 5, Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services, explains the concept of Reliable Services programming model for building Microservices hosted on Service Fabric.

Chapter 6, Reliable Actors, introduces Actor programming model on Service Fabric and the ways to build and deploy actors on a Service Fabric cluster.

Chapter 7, Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation, provides an overview of the motivation behind driving Microservices architectural patterns. The chapter also talks about the classification of the patterns that are discussed in this book.

Chapter 8, Microservices Architectural Patterns, introduces a catalog of design patterns categorized by its application. Each design pattern explains the problem and the proven solution for that problem. The pattern concludes with considerations that should be taken while applying the pattern and the use cases where the pattern can be applied.

Chapter 9, Securing and Managing Your Microservices, will guide you on securing your Microservices deployment on a Service Fabric cluster.

Chapter 10, Diagnostics and Monitoring, covers how to set up diagnostics and monitoring in your Service Fabric application. You will also learn how to use Service Fabric Explorer to monitor the cluster.

Chapter 11, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, takes you through the process of deploying your Microservices application on a Service Fabric cluster using Visual Studio Team Services.

Chapter 12, Serverless Microservices, helps you understand the concept of Serverless Computing and building Microservices using Azure functions.