Summary

We have discussed the key aspects of the microservice development model, including the motivation to use it, the common benefits, and the possible challenges. You have learned that the microservice model brings many advantages, helping you achieve a higher degree of flexibility. It also comes with its own costs, which often include additional complexity and a lack of uniformness in the system. Microservice architecture requires you to think about these problems proactively in order to address them before they become big issues.

In the next chapter, we are going to start our journey into microservice development with the Go language. You will learn the important basics of the Go programming language and we will scaffold our microservices, which we are going to improve throughout the rest of the book.