Chapter 10. Related Architecture Styles and Use Cases

Microservices are on top of the hype at this point. At the same time, there are noises around certain other architecture styles, for instance, serverless architecture. Which is good? Are they competing against each other? What are the appropriate scenarios and the best ways to leverage microservices? These are the obvious questions raised by many developers.

In this chapter, we will analyze various other architecture styles and establish the and relationships between microservices and other buzz words such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Twelve-Factor Apps, serverless computing, Lambda architectures, DevOps, Cloud, Containers, and Reactive Microservices. Twelve-Factor Apps defines a set of software engineering principles to develop applications targeting cloud. We will also analyze typical use cases of microservices and review some of the popular frameworks available for the rapid development of microservices.

By the end of this...