ZooKeeper is a component that facilitates building distributed applications. It is:

• a distributed hierarchical key value store,
• chooses C(onsistency) and A(availability) in the CAP theorem,
• works best on read-dominated workloads (< 10% writes),
• keeps content in the memory of each instance, and
• expects the data stored on each node (key) to be small (maybe several KiB).

The data managed by ZooKeeper is presented in a file system like manner with directories and files whose names get separated by slashes (/). The difference to a file system is, that you can store information in the directories as well. Or seen differently: directories are files at the same time. Based on this simple abstraction, users of ZooKeeper can implement things like leader election in a cluster of software instances.

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To stay on the right track with microservices, I wanted to revisit the philosophy and organizational recomendations on how to do them right. After reading Building Microservices in april this year, I got Microservice Architecture, aligning principles, practices, and culture by Irakli Nadareishvili et al.; O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2016.

The book can be read on one week-end as the content is very well condensed to 118 pages.

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It's hard to find sources how to do front-end micro-services in a single page application (SPA). Having a single front-end that faces the user makes it hard to impossible to exploid the full power of going micro-services in the back-end. For every new function you cannot just deploy the corresponding service, but you have the dependency to update and redeploy the service as well.

So I was looking around how to go micro in an SPA. One of the ideas I found on the web was to do so using web components. To evaluate this idea as someone working mainly on the backend I thought I should get some literature and bought the book Developing Web Components by Jarrod Overson and Jason Strimpel, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.

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