Going beyond microservices

Like everything in the technology world, microservices got to an inflection point (the Trough of Disillusionment, as we called it at the beginning of this chapter). The reasoning behind this point is whether the effort needed to implement a microservices architecture is worth it. The benefit of well-designed microservices architectures, beyond being highly scalable and resilient, is to be very quick in deploying new releases in production (and so experiment with a lot of new features in the real world, as suggested by the adoption of Agile methodology). But this comes at the cost of having to develop (and maintain) infrastructures that are way more complex (and expensive) than monolithic ones. So, if releasing often is not a primary need of your particular business, you may think that a full microservices architecture constitutes overkill.

Miniservices

For this reason, many organizations started adopting a compromise approach, sometimes referred to...