Understanding Microservices

We are always trying to improve how we create software. Computer programming is less than 100 years old, and we have evolved rapidly through technology, design, and philosophy to improve the tools and applications we produce.

Microservices have revolutionized software products by improving the readability and scalability of services, and have allowed organizations to speed up their release cycles and be more responsive to the needs of their customers. Everybody wants to ship new products and new features to their customers as fast as possible. They want to be agile by iterating often, and they want to ship, ship, and ship again.

With thousands of customers using your service simultaneously, it is considered good practice to push an experimental feature to production and remove it again if needed, instead of waiting for months to publish it and many other features at the same time.

Companies such, as Netflix, are promoting their...