Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

#1

Post by vaibkv » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 10:53 PM UTC

Hey HN!

What are some good recommendations to learn distributed microservices? I feel as if I am missing this key skillset from my portfolio and it might be a hindrance whenever I switch jobs. My company does not provide working opportunity in this area for me so looking to learn this externally.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

#2

Post by yuppie_scum » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:25 PM UTC

Read: Google SRE Book The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project The DevOps Handbook

Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

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Post by qohen » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 12:07 AM UTC

yuppie_scum wrote: post #2

Read: Google SRE Book The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project The DevOps Handbook Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.

The Google SRE (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) book is available to read online here, along with 2 other Google books:

https://sre.google/books/

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

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Post by vaibkv » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 1:11 AM UTC

qohen wrote: post #3

yuppie_scum wrote: post #2

Read: Google SRE Book The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project The DevOps Handbook Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.

The Google SRE (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) book is available to read online here, along with 2 other Google books: https://sre.google/books/

But are these hands-on?

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

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Post by ultrasounder » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 1:22 AM UTC

vaibkv wrote: post #4

qohen wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Google SRE (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) book is available to read online here, along with 2 other Google books: https://sre.google/books/

But are these hands-on?

Hi I’m currently working through this book and it’s as hands on as they come. You essentially build, and deploy a video streaming micro service application as a dockerized container. I am a python guy and I am still able to Follow the node.js code example as it’s well documented. Give it a shot, https://www.manning.com/books/bootstrapping-microservices-wi...

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

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Post by vaibkv » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 1:33 AM UTC

ultrasounder wrote: post #5

vaibkv wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But are these hands-on?

Hi I’m currently working through this book and it’s as hands on as they come. You essentially build, and deploy a video streaming micro service application as a dockerized container. I am a python guy and I am still able to Follow the node.js code example as it’s well documented. Give it a shot, https://www.manning.com/books/bootstrapping-microservices-wi...

Thank you so much! This looks like exactly what I need as well. I'll give it a go. I wonder though if there's something similar available for AWS or GCP.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

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Post by ultrasounder » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 3:19 PM UTC

vaibkv wrote: post #6

ultrasounder wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi I’m currently working through this book and it’s as hands on as they come. You essentially build, and deploy a video streaming micro service application as a dockerized container. I am a python guy and I am still able to Follow the node.js code example as it’s well documented. Give it a shot, https://www.manning.com/books/bootstrapping-microservices-wi...

Thank you so much! This looks like exactly what I need as well. I'll give it a go. I wonder though if there's something similar available for AWS or GCP.

Hi in that book the author uses Azure, but its easily transferable to GCP/AWS. It uses Terraform IAC, and the whole intent of IAC to deploy Kubernetes is to wean off a particular cloud provider. Good luck!