PHP and Microservices: Architecture, Testing, and Deployment

Is your monolithic application struggling with the load? Is your development team growing, and deploying new features turning into a nightmare? The book "PHP and Microservices" is a practical guide that will help you transition from a monolith to a modern distributed architecture using the familiar PHP language.

What is this book about?

We won't just list theory. You will go through the complete path from designing your first microservice to its production deployment. The book covers real-world cases, patterns, and anti-patterns. You will learn:

• How to properly decompose a monolith into microservices without creating a "distributed monolith".
• Which communication protocols to choose: REST, gRPC, or asynchronous queues (RabbitMQ / Kafka).
• How to organize inter-service communication and data management in a distributed system.
• Specifics of implementing API Gateway, Service Discovery, and Circuit Breaker in PHP.
• How to test microservices: unit tests, integration tests, and contract testing (Pact).
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration with Docker Compose for local development.
• CI/CD pipelines for automatic microservice deployment.

Who is this book for?

The book is intended for Middle and Senior level PHP developers who have already worked with frameworks (Symfony, Laravel) and want to reach a new level of architectural thinking. It will also be useful for team leads and architects looking for proven recipes for building a microservice ecosystem.

What will you get?

• A ready-made architecture to start a microservice project.
• Code examples in PHP 8.x using modern libraries.
• Templates for logging, monitoring, and request tracing (OpenTelemetry).
• Solutions to typical problems: distributed transactions, idempotency, and error handling.

This book is not a reference manual, but a navigator. It will save you months of experimentation and help you avoid fatal mistakes at the start. Buy the book and start building microservices that won't fall apart under the first load.