What are microservices?
What are microservices? This is the question the enterprise world is asking the computing world. Because of the bigger teams, the companies are ready to embrace microservices for breaking down tasks. Microservice architecture replaces the traditional monolith with granular services that talk to each other with some kind of agreement.
Microservices bring the following benefits to the plate:
- If the team is big, people can work on chunks of applications
- Adaptability is easy for the new developers
- Adopting best practices, such as Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Easily replaceable software with loosely coupled architecture
In a monolith application (traditional application), a single huge server serves the incoming requests by multiplexing the computing power. It is good because we have everything, such as an application server, database, and other things, in a single place. It also has disadvantages. When a piece of software breaks, everything breaks...
