The Microservices Playbook: Battle-Tested Design Principles from the Trenches

From Monolith to Microservices: Essential Design Patterns for Enterprise-Grade Systems

Hello folks, if you are a senior Java developer or a junior programmer working in Microservices, and don’t have much idea how to create a production-grade Microservices the article is for you.

I have been developing Microservices for the last couple of years, and it's been a tough journey as I have had to learn most things the hard way.

I made a big mistake when I didn’t invest in my learning by joining any Microservice training courses before jumping into development due to that my learning was slow and I had to do a lot of Google searches even for simple stuff.

Even if you don’t learn everything you will get ideas about a lot of things which will save a lot of your time even if you have to search.

In the past few articles, I have been sharing my experience on Microservices like 50 Microservices Interview questions which I shared earlier as well as my article about SAGA Design Pattern and Monolithic vs Microservices architecture.

To continue that, In this article, I am going to share essential design principles you can follow while designing and developing your Microservices.

These design principles are closely related to software redevelopment and it will help you to design robust, scalable, and maintainable Microservices.

By the way, these design principles are different than Microservices design pattern patterns like CQRS, SAGA, or Database per Microservice, we will learn about them later, in this article we will focus on principles that apply to every Microservices.

10 Essential Microservices Design and Development Principles for Programmers

Here is a list of 10 Microservices design principles you can keep in mind and follow while doing Microservice development. They will help you a lot in long run even after development and deployment.