Название: Building Micro-Frontends: Distributed Systems for the Frontend, 2nd Edition (Early Release)
Автор: Luca Mezzalira
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2024-04-15
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true), mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

What's the answer to today's increasingly complex applications? Micro-frontends. Inspired by the microservices model, this approach lets you break interfaces into separate features managed by different teams of developers. In this updated second edition, software architects, tech leads, and software developers will learn how to design, build, and deploy independent micro-frontends that compose unique frontend systems.

Author Luca Mezzalira, principal serverless specialist solutions architect at AWS, shows you how micro-frontends enable agility within an organization, decentralize decision-making, and optimize for fast flow. This gives your organization technical flexibility and allows you to hire and retain a broad spectrum of talent. Micro-frontends also support distributed or colocated teams more efficiently. Pick up this book and learn how to get started with this technological breakthrough right away.

In the long run, companies with large monoliths usually slow down all the operations needed to release any new feature, losing the great momentum they had at the beginning of a project where everything was easier and smaller with few complications and risks. Also, with monolithic applications, we have to test and deploy the entire codebase every single time, which comes with a higher chance of breaking the APIs in production, introducing new bugs, and making more mistakes, especially when the codebase is not rock solid or extensively tested. Solving these and many other challenges its staff faces, a company might move from complex monolith codebases to multiple smaller codebases and scoped domains called microservices.

Nowadays microservices architecture is a well-known, established and popular pattern used by many organizations across the world. Microservices split a unique codebase into smaller parts, each of them with a subset of functionalities compared to a monolith. This business logic is embraced by developers because the problem solved by a microservice is simpler than looking at thousands of lines of code. Moreover a developer can maintain a clear picture of the code base and related functionality implemented, considering the cognitive load is by far less than working on a monolithic system. Another significant advantage is that we can scale part of the application and use the right approach for a microservice instead of a one-size-fits-all approach similar to a monolith.

You will:
Understand the four pillars for creating a successful micro-frontend architecture
Learn principles and best practices that will enable your teams to succeed with this architecture
Examine the benefits and pitfalls of existing micro-frontend architectures
Learn how micro-frontends work in conjunction with other distributed systems like microservices
Discover different architectures for creating client-side and server-side micro-frontend architectures
Learn automation best practices that will empower your organization to optimize for fast flow