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Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

3 points by vaibkv 5y ago

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!

yuppie_scum 5y ago
Read: Google SRE Book The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project The DevOps Handbook Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.
- qohen 5y ago
  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/ https://sre.google/books/
  - vaibkv 5y ago
    But are these hands-on?
    - ultrasounder 5y ago
      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-with-docker-kubernetes-and-terraform https://www.manning.com/books/bootstrapping-microservices-wi...
      - vaibkv 5y ago
        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.
        ultrasounder 5y ago
        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!