Chapter 3: Service Decomposition Patterns

In this section

• 3.1 Decompose by Business Capability
  • Identifying Business Capabilities in Microservices Architecture
    Explore the process of identifying business capabilities as a foundational step in microservices design, focusing on mapping domains, engaging stakeholders, and prioritizing capabilities for scalable systems.
  • Aligning Services with Business Functions in Microservices
    Explore how aligning microservices with business functions enhances scalability, autonomy, and maintainability. Learn to define service boundaries, leverage DDD, and ensure single responsibility.
  • Case Studies: Successful Service Decomposition by Business Capability
    Explore real-world examples of successful service decomposition by business capability in microservices architecture, highlighting challenges, solutions, and outcomes.
• 3.2 Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Integrating Domain-Driven Design with Microservices: A Comprehensive Guide
    Explore how to effectively integrate Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with microservices architecture, aligning service boundaries with domains, facilitating collaboration, and ensuring data ownership.
  • Bounded Contexts and Subdomains in Domain-Driven Design for Microservices
    Explore the role of bounded contexts and subdomains in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for microservices. Learn how to define, map, and integrate these concepts to build scalable systems.
  • Aggregates and Entities in Domain-Driven Design for Microservices
    Explore the role of aggregates and entities in Domain-Driven Design, focusing on their importance in microservices architecture. Learn how to design, implement, and optimize aggregates for consistency, performance, and integrity.
• 3.3 Strangler Pattern
  • Refactoring Monolith to Microservices: A Comprehensive Guide
    Explore the process of refactoring a monolithic application into microservices, focusing on identifying refactoring candidates, defining boundaries, decoupling components, and ensuring seamless integration.
  • Incremental Migration Strategies: Transitioning from Monolith to Microservices
    Explore the Strangler Pattern for incremental migration from monolithic systems to microservices, focusing on strategies for assessing, prioritizing, and executing a seamless transition.
  • Strangler Pattern Best Practices for Microservices Migration
    Explore best practices for implementing the Strangler Pattern in microservices migration, including strategy development, stakeholder engagement, documentation, automation, monitoring, agile practices, data integrity, rollback planning, and fostering continuous improvement.
• 3.4 Evolutionary Architecture
  • Embracing Change in Evolutionary Architecture for Microservices
    Explore how embracing change through evolutionary architecture enables microservices to adapt and grow in response to evolving requirements, focusing on incremental development, flexibility, modular design, and CI/CD practices.
  • Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Architecture for Microservices
    Explore the role of fitness functions in ensuring microservices architecture adheres to desired qualities like performance, scalability, and security. Learn how to implement, integrate, and refine these automated checks for continuous validation.
  • Continuous Delivery Architectures in Microservices
    Explore the intricacies of Continuous Delivery Architectures in Microservices, focusing on automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, testing automation, and advanced deployment strategies.