Best practices for microservices
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Best practices #
There are 12 practices that can be considered as the best
- Use one codebase with strong revision control
- Explicitly declared dependencies (libraries), using package managers like pip.
- The enviroment should be stored in a config file
- Have resilient backing services, attached to each service and should be easily swapable.
- Deployment should be separated in build, release and run stages. Where build is creating the deployment package, putting the configuration in a runtime enviroment and executing the app.
- The app should be executed as one or more stateless processes
- Each service is binded to a specific port
- Since services run independently, they run in separated processes, which scale easily by adding new instances for the process.
- Apps should be written in a robust and reliable way with fast startup, because they need to deploy and scale quickly.
- The development enviroment should be paired to keep the stages similar, using docker is useful
- We should treat logs as event streams
- Admin tasks should be run as a repeatable and automated on-off process but shouldn’t be a part of the app