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PHP Beyond the Monolith: A Hands-On Guide to Building Scalable Microservices, Secure REST APIs, and Data-Driven Applications
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ISBN13: 9798272058652
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 29 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Every experienced PHP developer knows that application. The one affectionately called the Big Ball of Mud.
It's the system where a simple feature request requires tracing logic through a dozen tangled classes . It's the application where a bug fix in the Admin module accidentally breaks the Checkout . And it's the deployment process that's a high-stakes, all-or-nothing event, requiring a late-night maintenance window and a prayer .
It's the system where a simple feature request requires tracing logic through a dozen tangled classes . It's the application where a bug fix in the Admin module accidentally breaks the Checkout . And it's the deployment process that's a high-stakes, all-or-nothing event, requiring a late-night maintenance window and a prayer .
For years, frameworks like Laravel and Symfony built empires on this monolithic model, and it worked, until it didn't . The moment your team grows, your traffic scales, or you need to move to a modern cloud-native cattle architecture, the monolith becomes a bottleneck to growth.
This book is the practical, hands-on escape plan.
It's not just theory; it's a complete roadmap that teaches you how to stop maintaining a monolith and start architecting a modern, decoupled system of scalable microservices, secure APIs, and resilient, data-driven applications .
Inside, you will master the complete lifecycle of a modern PHP service:
Design First, Code Later: Learn to think in services by identifying Bounded Contexts and mastering API-first design by writing formal, testable API contracts with OpenAPI .
Build a Production-Ready Core: Go beyond simple scripts. Build a secure, lightweight API service using a minimalist framework (like Slim) and Dependency Injection (PSR-11) to create code that is decoupled and truly testable .
Decouple Your Data: Leave messy SQL queries in your controllers behind. Master the Repository Pattern, using interfaces to build a wall between your business logic and your database (PDO) .
Tame Your Database: Learn what your database is actually doing. Use EXPLAIN to find bottlenecks, add indexes to fix them, and solve the dreaded N+1 query problem with eager loading .
Master Caching at Scale: Implement the high-performance Decorator Pattern to wrap your repositories with a distributed cache. Serve 99% of your requests from Redis and protect your database.
Embrace Asynchronous Workflows: Stop making your users wait. Learn why your API shouldn't send emails and how to use RabbitMQ to publish jobs to a message queue, making your API feel instantaneous .
Package for Production: Master Docker. Evolve from a naive Dockerfile to a secure, minimal, multi-stage build and orchestrate your entire dev stack (PHP-FPM, Nginx, MySQL, Redis) with Docker Compose .
Achieve Full Observability: Stop flying blind. Implement the Three Pillars Structured (JSON) Logging, Prometheus Metrics, and Distributed Tracing to make your system transparent.
Test with Confidence: Build the Testing Pyramid. Write fast Unit Tests (using mocks), reliable Integration Tests (with Docker Compose), and Contract Tests (with Pact) to ensure your microservices can deploy independently and safely.
Automate Everything: Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to automatically test your code, build your production image, and push it to a registry, ready for deployment .
Who This Book Is For
This book is for the professional PHP developer who feels stuck in the monolith . It's for the mid-to-senior engineer, tech lead, or architect who needs a practical, code-filled guide to building secure, scalable, and maintainable data-driven systems with modern PHP .
If you're ready to make the leap from being a framework developer to a system architect, this book is your guide.
This book is the practical, hands-on escape plan.
It's not just theory; it's a complete roadmap that teaches you how to stop maintaining a monolith and start architecting a modern, decoupled system of scalable microservices, secure APIs, and resilient, data-driven applications .
Inside, you will master the complete lifecycle of a modern PHP service:
Design First, Code Later: Learn to think in services by identifying Bounded Contexts and mastering API-first design by writing formal, testable API contracts with OpenAPI .
Build a Production-Ready Core: Go beyond simple scripts. Build a secure, lightweight API service using a minimalist framework (like Slim) and Dependency Injection (PSR-11) to create code that is decoupled and truly testable .
Decouple Your Data: Leave messy SQL queries in your controllers behind. Master the Repository Pattern, using interfaces to build a wall between your business logic and your database (PDO) .
Tame Your Database: Learn what your database is actually doing. Use EXPLAIN to find bottlenecks, add indexes to fix them, and solve the dreaded N+1 query problem with eager loading .
Master Caching at Scale: Implement the high-performance Decorator Pattern to wrap your repositories with a distributed cache. Serve 99% of your requests from Redis and protect your database.
Embrace Asynchronous Workflows: Stop making your users wait. Learn why your API shouldn't send emails and how to use RabbitMQ to publish jobs to a message queue, making your API feel instantaneous .
Package for Production: Master Docker. Evolve from a naive Dockerfile to a secure, minimal, multi-stage build and orchestrate your entire dev stack (PHP-FPM, Nginx, MySQL, Redis) with Docker Compose .
Achieve Full Observability: Stop flying blind. Implement the Three Pillars Structured (JSON) Logging, Prometheus Metrics, and Distributed Tracing to make your system transparent.
Test with Confidence: Build the Testing Pyramid. Write fast Unit Tests (using mocks), reliable Integration Tests (with Docker Compose), and Contract Tests (with Pact) to ensure your microservices can deploy independently and safely.
Automate Everything: Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to automatically test your code, build your production image, and push it to a registry, ready for deployment .
Who This Book Is For
This book is for the professional PHP developer who feels stuck in the monolith . It's for the mid-to-senior engineer, tech lead, or architect who needs a practical, code-filled guide to building secure, scalable, and maintainable data-driven systems with modern PHP .
If you're ready to make the leap from being a framework developer to a system architect, this book is your guide.
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