We’ve spent the whole book working toward a production microservices application, so where to now? It’s time to see what microservices can offer us in the future.
Throughout this book, we’ve taken many shortcuts that helped us get started quickly and cheaply with microservices. These shortcuts make it simpler to learn microservices and to bootstrap our fledgling application. Even though FlixTube is a simple application built with a relatively simple process, we’re still using microservices, and this is an architecture that provides us many pathways to future scalability.
In this chapter, we discuss how to manage a growing microservices application. How do we scale up to a bigger development team? How do we scale up to meet the demands of a growing customer base? We also need to talk about basic security concerns and how they relate to microservices. Then, we’ll briefly touch on what it takes to convert an existing monolith to microservices.