What are microservices? This is the question the enterprise world is asking the computing world. The sustainability of a product depends on how easily modifiable it is. Huge products should retire at some point in time if they cannot be maintained properly. The microservice architecture replaces the traditional monolith with granular services that talk to each other in some kind of agreement.
Microservices bring the following benefits to the table:
- Small teams can iterate in parallel by working on a small set of features.
- Adaptability is easy for new developers.
- They allow Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) for individual components of a system.
- They offer easily replaceable software with a loosely coupled architecture.
- The architecture is not coupled to a specific technology
In a monolithic application (traditional application)...