davidmerrick / awesome-microservices

A list of resources for building and testing microservice architectures

A collection of tools and documentation for building microservice architectures.

Orchestration

• Kubernetes
• Apache Mesos
• Docker Compose
• Flocker

Design

• 12-Factor App: Very popular methodology for building software-as-a-service apps.
• Robustness Principle: "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept."
• "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." --John Gall

Development

• PackageCloud.io: Private repository for Maven and Python packages.

Docker

Tools

• Kitematic
• Consul.io: Distributed service discovery and key-value store commonly used in Docker setups.
• Kompose: Tool for transforming docker-compose configs into Kubernetes manifests.

Container registries

• Quay.io
• Docker Hub

Kubernetes

• The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes
• Kops
• Helm

Topology/Infrastructure

• Hystrix: Latency and fault tolerance library designed by Netflix.
• Terraform: Tool for creating, changing, and improving production infrastructure.

Queues

• queues.io: List of services for handling queues.

Distributed Tracing

• OpenTracing.io
• ZipKin

Monitoring

• Prometheus
• cAdvisor: Exposes metrics from Docker containers.
• DataDog
• New Relic

API Development

• gRPC
• Swagger
• Slate: Presentation layer for API docs.

Dashboards

• Grafana

Log Aggregation

• PaperTrail
• SumoLogic
• Kibana: The "K" in ELK stack.
• LogDNA
• InfluxDB: (aka TICK stack)

Testing

• SimianArmy: A set of tools developed by Netflix for chaos testing.
• Concourse CI: Container-oriented CI.
• Pact.io: Contract testing framework.
• CusterRunner: Massively parallel test runner.

Load

• Gatling
• Flood.io: Service for running automated load tests at scale.

Security

• OWASP Dependency Check: Utility that identifies project dependencies and checks if there are any known, publicly disclosed, vulnerabilities.

DevOps

• DevOps Topologies: Lists DevOps patterns and antipatterns.

Misc Tools

• DotEnv: Tool for loading environment variables from .env files.

Books

• Release It!
• Site Reliability Engineering
• DevOps Handbook
• Infrastructure as Code
• Effective DevOps
• Production-Ready Microservices
• Building Microservices