Understanding cloud architecture styles
Microservices architecture and event driven architecture are commonly used cloud architecture styles while designing distributed applications. First and foremost, the goal of any architecture is to support business needs with minimal effort (time and resources). Businesses want software to enable them, instead of acting as a bottleneck. Let's look at microservices architecture and event-driven architecture to understand their benefits.
Microservices architecture
Microservices architecture consists of small, loosely coupled, independent, and autonomous services. Each service in the following diagram implements a business capability adhering to the single responsibility pattern.
Figure 2.6 – Microservices architecture
Let's see the benefits:
- Services can be deployed and scaled independently.
- Services provide fault isolation as an issue in one service will have a local impact and can be...
