Understanding business requirements

Before you jump into building microservices with JavaScript, it’s important to clearly understand what your services need to do. Then, based on what your project requires, you can pick the right tools to help you create those microservices.

The team doesn’t consist of only developers. The business domain people are also an integral part of the team when it comes to building business valuable applications. In software development, the final and main artifact is code and it should reflect the real business. Applying domain language that everyone speaks will make your code a valuable source of truth and it is only possible if you have zero translation between business and developers. The most popular approach to developing such types of microservices with a single language that everyone speaks is Domain-driven Design (DDD). Everyone in a team should use the same language that describes the business in a given boundary. This is called...