Chanaka Fernando - Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS: A modern approach to designing and implementing scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging

A modern approach to designing and implementing scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging

Chanaka Fernando

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To my mother, Seelawathi De Silva, and my father, Harry Sebastian, for their sacrifices and for exemplifying the power of determination. To my wife, Subhashini, for being my loving partner throughout our joint life journey, and to my little daughter, Saneli, for bringing me happiness and joy.

Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ.

Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.

To my wife, Subhashini, my mother-in-law, Margrett, my father-in-law, Bernard, and my parents. They made sure I had enough time and energy to spend on writing this book. To Harshal, for believing in the book's topic and giving me the opportunity to write for Packt. To Vaishali, Ruvika, Deeksha, and the rest of the Packt team, I thank you all for your tireless efforts. To Justice Nefe and Isuru Udana, both great technical reviewers, I am grateful for your comments and feedback.

Justice Nefe, is CEO of Borderless HQ, Inc. and has 5+ years' experience as a software engineer with a focus on large-scale systems. Justice has built products and services with tools including Node.js, Golang, Vue.js, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, GraphQL, and others; and has designed systems from monoliths to microservices, leveraged on Apache Pulsar/nats.io and NATS Streaming for event-driven microservices. Justice is currently experimenting with Rust and Flutter and is skilled in distributed systems development, enterprise software development, product development, and systems design, working with different teams large and small, as well as teams in different geographical zones all to create products and services that put a smile on the face of customers. Justice has created open source products and internal tools for the different teams they've worked with, and collaborates with key stakeholders to conceptualize and drive new and existing initiatives to market.

Isuru Udana Loku Narangoda is a software architect and associate director at WSO2 with more than 10 years of experience in the enterprise integration space. Isuru is one of the product leads of the WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and API Manager products, and provides technical leadership to the project. Isuru is an open source enthusiast, a committer, and holds the vice-president position of the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. Also, Isuru has participated in the Google Summer of Code program as a student as well as a mentor for several years.