Summary

In this chapter, we've compared the monolithic and microservice approaches to building web applications, and it became apparent that there's not a binary choice where you have to pick one model on day one and stick with it.

You should see microservices as an improvement of an application that started its life as a monolith. As the project matures, parts of the service logic should migrate into microservices. It is a useful approach, as we've learned in this chapter, but it should be done carefully to avoid falling into some common traps.

Another important lesson is that Python is considered to be one of the best languages to write web applications and, therefore, microservices. For the same reasons, it's a language of choice in other areas, and also because it provides many mature frameworks and packages to do the work.

Python can be a slow language, and that can be a problem in very specific cases. Knowing what makes it slow, and the different...