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Sam Newman is a technology consultant and author specializing in microservices, cloud architecture, and continuous delivery. He has worked with organizations worldwide to help them adopt modern software delivery practices and is a frequent speaker at international technology conferences.

Known for: Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

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Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

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Building Microservices introduces the principles and practices of designing and implementing microservice architectures. Sam Newman explains how to decompose monolithic systems into small, independently deployable services, covering topics such as service boundaries, communication, data management, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The book provides practical guidance for architects and developers seeking to build scalable, maintainable, and resilient distributed systems.

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Introduction to Microservices

The journey begins with understanding what microservices truly are and why they matter. I often describe a microservice as a small, autonomous application that performs one business function well and communicates with other services through lightweight mechanisms, such as HTTP APIs or messaging syst...

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Principles of Microservice Design

The key principle that shapes every decision in microservice architecture is autonomy. A service must be able to change, scale, and deploy independently. To achieve that, we build around bounded contexts — a concept borrowed from domain-driven design. A bounded context delineates the area where a pa...

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About Sam Newman

Sam Newman is a technology consultant and author specializing in microservices, cloud architecture, and continuous delivery. He has worked with organizations worldwide to help them adopt modern software delivery practices and is a frequent speaker at international technology conferences.

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