There has been a lot of discussion about the critical benefits of monoliths versus microservices. The possibility associated with creating smaller code packages has apparent advantages in that they are typically easier to debug, more straightforward to integrate, and have a consistent message interface. Those benefits, by themselves, would not be sufficient to warrant a wholesale migration to microservices.
In the following diagram, we're contrasting a typical monolithic software construct to a microservice architecture. The first thing to notice is that the microservice architecture has a lot more component services available. A key point to note is the deconstruction of the single application into the delivery of services focus on business operation. Over the next couple of paragraphs, we will discuss the reasoning behind this approach and how...
