Leveraging Microservices in Backend Applications

When we are designing backend services for a server-side Swift application, we are generally talking about designing for a distributed architecture. This means that service components are accessed remotely through some sort of remote-access protocol, so these components can communicate across different processes, servers, and networks. Similar to Object-Oriented Design (OOD) in software architecture, distributed architectures lend themselves to more loosely-coupled, encapsulated, and modular applications. This, in turn, promotes better scalability, modularity, and control over the development, testing, and deployment of backend service modules.

The microservice-oriented architecture

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