Summary

Microservices enabled with RESTful APIs are the hot commodity these days. Microservices have emerged as the optimal unit of application development and deployment, not only for building and running enterprise-grade and production-ready applications, but also for modernizing currently-running applications. That is, legacy applications are being dismantled as a collection of microservices. Because of their unique features, microservices are becoming established as the most appropriate unit for migrating applications to cloud environments; that is, microservices contribute immensely to crafting and running cloud-enabled applications. Fresh applications are being directly developed in cloud environments, called cloud-native applications. This chapter discussed legacy modernization, why it's becoming essential, and how the MSA pattern assists in creating modern applications...