The Best Microservices Books to Level Up Your Skills

Introduction

Microservices or Microservices architecture is an increasingly popular architectural  pattern that has mostly become a de-facto standard for building the modern world software applications. Microservices architecture enables to break down the large complex system to tiny services allowing to scale and manage them independently. Each services are aimed to focus on a specific business domain functionality and are loosely coupled with other services. Hence, the microservices approach enables the organizations to effectively bulid, deploy and maintain large complex application more efficiently. That's one of the reason, microservices architecture is becoming the preferred choice of businesses of all sizes and various domains. May it be microservices in healthcare domain in a small startup or microservices in finance in an established financial organization, mostly each organizations are planning sooner or later to adopt to microservices architecture after doing a thorough assessment of advantages and challenges of microservices over monoliths.

Looking at the increasing demand of microservices architecture and it's wide adoption in the softwared industry, it's important to master the microservices architecture to give a boost and skyrocket the career in the software world. In this post, we will take a look at evergreen best microservices books available which, not only enables to jump start the microservices journey, it also helps to take the career to the next level by elevating the skills on microservices architecture. 

Let's now take a look at the microservice books which will help you to stay ahead of the game and effectively build Scalable and Efficient microservices. 

Book#1 : Monolith to Microservices By Sam Newman

This book mainly covers some of the interesting aspect and proven methods around transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservices architecture and that too, how to do it while maintaining business as-usual. 

This book is for everyone who wants to embark on the journey from monoliths to microservices and this book will be a perfect companion of the next book that we are going to take a look at now.

Book#2 : Building Microservices By Sam Newman

This book covers the holistic view of some of the important topics that one need to consider when building, managing, and scaling microservices architectures. It helps  architects, developers, testers and everyone to understand the grounding concepts about learn how organizations in the modern world manage to get the most out of the microservices architectures.

Book#3 : Microservices Patterns By Chris Richardson

This book covers microservices patterns with examples in Java, for building and deploying  microservices applications. More than just a patterns catalog, it's a practical guide with worked examples that helps to design, implement, test, and deploy microservices-based application.

Conclusion

With increasing popularity and adoption of microservices, it's truly a good idea to learn microservices and stay ahead of the game. The books mentioned in this post are some of the best books available in my viewpoint, to learn and master about microservices.

Disclaimer : I have shared the list of books based on my understanding and experience and they are in no particular order. This was not an extensive list and there may be other good books available as well. Do let me know about them if you found them as interesting read. Also, for your kind knowledge, the book links mentioned in this post are affiliate links, which means if you purchase the book from the given link, I may get a tiny commission with no extra cost to you. Thank you.