davidmerrick/awesome-microservices

A list of resources for building and testing microservice architectures

A collection of tools and documentation for building microservice architectures.

Orchestration

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

Kubernetes

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

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