Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning Distributed Microservices?

[vaibkv]

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]

Read: Google SRE Book The Phoenix Project The Unicorn Project The DevOps Handbook

Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.

[qohen]

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/

[vaibkv]

But are these hands-on?

[ultrasounder]

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-wi...

[vaibkv]

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]

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!