PHP Microservices

Carlos Perez Sanchez, Pablo Solar Vilarino

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781787124035
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Programmierung in PHP

Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservicesAbout This Book• Build your own applications based on event-driven microservices and set them up on a production server.• Successfully transform any monolithic application into a microservice.• Monitor the health of your application, prevent downtime, and reduce costs.Who This Book Is ForPHP developers who want to build scalable, highly available, and secure applications will find this book useful. No knowledge of microservices is assumed.What You Will Learn• Set up a development environment using the right strategies and tools.• Learn about application design and structure to start implementing your application.• Transform a monolithic application into microservices.• Explore the best way to start implementing your application using testing.• Understand how to monitor your microservices, handle errors, and debug the application.• Deploy your finished application into a production environment and learn how to solve common problems.• Know how to scale your application based on microservices once it is up–and-running.In DetailThe world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP.The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns.By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.Style and approachFilled with code that you can start typing straightaway, this book will take you through building, testing, securing, and deploying microservices in the most practical way possible. The focus of the book is more inclined towards showing you how it's done, rather than with what to do, although you will get a good idea of those tools most widely used to build microservices.

PHP Microservices

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PHP Microservices

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Credits

Authors Carlos Pérez Sánchez Pablo Solar Vilariño	Copy Editor Shaila Kusanale
Reviewers Gabor Zelei	Project Coordinator Vaidehi Sawant
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About the Authors

Carlos Pérez Sánchez is a backend web developer with more than 10 years of experience in working with the PHP language. He loves finding the best solution for every single problem on web applications and coding, looking to push forward the best practices for development, ensuring a high level of attention to detail.

He has a bachelors degree in computer engineering from the University of Alicante in Spain, and he has worked for different companies in the United Kingdom and Spain. He has also worked for American companies and is currently working for Pingvalue. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrcarlosdev.

To my girlfriend, Becca, family, and friends—thanks for your unconditional support in every single stage of my life.

Pablo Solar Vilariño is a software developer who became interested in web development when PHP 4 started becoming a popular language.

Over the last few years, he has worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies for medium-to-large companies and is currently an e-commerce developer at NITSNETS.

He has a passion for new technologies, code standards, scalability, performance, and open source projects.

Pablo can be approached online at https://pablosolar.es/.

To everyone who has ever believed in me.

About the Reviewer

Gabor Zelei is a polyglot software engineer with a versatile background in both software engineering and operations. He’s had a decade-long love for PHP and LAMP/LEMP stacks in general; he enjoys working with upcoming technologies and methodologies and is a big fan of clean, well-structured and standards-compliant code.

During his career, he has worked for small startups as well as large enterprise companies. Currently, he lives in Dublin, Ireland, where he works as a senior software developer for a leading online marketplace company.

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Preface

Microservices are the new kids on the block. They are a way of solving problems, but it does not mean that they will always be the best solution. Microservices are a full and complex architecture that you need to understand deeply in order to be able to apply them successfully in the real world.

We know that understanding and having everything in place for microservices can take time and can be very complex, so for this reason we wrote this book--to give you a small guide to microservices, from A to Z. This book will only be a glimpse of what you can do with microservices, but we hope that it will be at least a helpful start into this world.

We will start our journey in this book by explaining the foundations of this architecture, the basic knowledge you will need to have. As you advance through the book, we will be increasing the level of difficulty. However, we will guide you through every step of the process, so at the end of the book you will be able to know whether a microservice architecture is the best solution for your problem and how can you apply this architecture.

Enjoy your microservices!

What this book covers

Chapter 1, What are Microservices?, will teach you all the basics of microservices.

Chapter 2, Development Environment, will take you through setting up your development machine to build microservices successfully.

Chapter 3, Application Design, will help you start designing your application, creating the foundation of your project.

Chapter 4, Testing and Quality Control, looks at how important testing your application is and how can you add tests to your application.

Chapter 5, Microservices Development, will cover building a microservices application, explaining each step involved.

Chapter 6, Monitoring, covers how to monitor your application so that you can always know how your application is behaving.

Chapter 7, Security, focuses on how you can add an extra layer of complexity to your application to make it more secure.

Chapter 8, Deployment, explains how you can deploy your application successfully.

Chapter 9, From Monolithic to Microservices, discusses an example of how a monolithic application can be transformed into a microservice.

Chapter 10, Strategies for Scalability, outlines how you can create a scalable application.

Chapter 11, Best Practices and Conventions, will refresh your knowledge about the best practices and conventions you should use in an application.

Chapter 12, Cloud and DevOps, looks at the different cloud providers and the DevOps world.

What you need for this book

To follow along with this book, you’ll need a computer with an Internet connection to download the required software and Docker images. At some point, you will need at least a text editor or an IDE, and we highly recommend PHPStorm for this job.

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced PHP developers who want to go a step ahead in their careers and start building successful scalable and maintainable applications, all based on microservices. After reading the book, they will be able to know whet...