The small size of services in a microservice architecture means that they're faster to develop, deploy, and understand. As the services are built independently of each other, the time necessary to compile their new versions can be drastically reduced. Thanks to this, it is easier to employ rapid prototyping and development when dealing with this architectural style. This, in turn, makes it possible to reduce the lead-time, meaning that business requirements can be introduced and evaluated much quicker.
Some other benefits of a microservice-based approach include the following:
- Modularity, which is inherent to this architectural style.
- Better testability.
- Flexibility when replacing system parts (such as single services, databases, message brokers, or cloud providers).
- Integration with legacy systems: it is not necessary to migrate an entire application, just the parts that require current development.
- Enabling distributed development: independent...
