Blog post summary: Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture at Uber

“Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture at Uber” is a blog post on the Uber engineering blog. There were some comments about the post not giving credit to prior art, which I think is fair, but it is a useful post none the less. Uber provide an interesting approach to classifying and organizing their (2,200!) microservices, by using the concepts of Domains, Layers, Gateways and Extensions.

This is a shortened version here (1,200 words, vs 3,800 in the original), since I tend to learn by creating summaries, but it is mostly just a copy & paste, so check out the original with diagrams etc if you’re really interested.

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Tags: microservices, summary, uber