14. Creating a Full Application—World of FluxCraft

“It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!”

Old Man NPC, Legend of Zelda. February 21, 1986

When we build microservices, we know that we’re really building an ecosystem of services. Nothing we build that will add real business value, satisfy stockholders, or make our customers happy will ever be just a tiny service that exists in a vacuum.

A microservice ecosystem is, at its core, a distributed system. Distributed systems are hard. Microservices are hard. Building an application made up of many individually deployable and separately scalable components is hard.

When we read programming books, we want to apply the knowledge learned from building a dozen or so isolated samples to creating a cohesive, ...

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