Finding Your Service Boundaries - A Practical Guide

This course explains how to find useful service boundaries in complex business systems. It uses a hotel booking example to examine business abstractions, data sharing, and organizational boundaries in microservice design.

Syllabus

Introduction
Drawing a bunch of boxes
A big ball of mud
Serviceoriented architecture
Tight coupling
Spaghetti model
Big ball of mud
Four services
Amazon workflow
Shipping address
Amazon
Events
Checkout
Shipping
Sharing data
What are services
Systems vs services
Anti requirements
Finding service boundaries
Naming
Hotel
Room type
Dates
Price
Luxury
Pricing
Price per night
False advertising
Creating a booking ID
Pricing options
Business abstractions
Booking your room
Insurance
Organizational boundaries
Microservices
Drawing microservices
Autonomous components
Microservice
Video package
Wrap up