From monolithic to microservices and everything in between

Client-server applications have always been popular. However, as networking technology and design patterns have evolved, the need to have less tightly coupled applications intercommunicating has given way to service-oriented architectures (SOAs). An SOA is the concept of breaking down the components that make up a monolith or server into more discrete business services. SOA components are still self-contained. However, they are significantly smaller in scope than the traditional monolithic application and enable faster maintenance and decoupled interactions. The traditional client could still be considered a component of an SOA application, but, instead of communicating directly with a monolithic server, there would be an intermediation layer, or server bus, that accepts the call and distributes to other services for processing...