Microservices-based Architecture
Microservices-based architecture, as the name suggests, recommends dividing your services into a fine-grained level. There are different schools of thoughts when it comes to microservices; some will argue that it is just a fancy name for service-oriented architecture. We can definitely consider microservices as an extension of service-oriented architecture, but there are many features that make microservices different.
Micorservices take service-oriented architecture to the next level. SOA thinks of services at a feature level, whereas microservices take it to a task level. For example, if we have an email service for sending and receiving emails, we can have microservices such as a spell check, spam filter, and so on, each of which handles one specialized task.
An important differentiating factor that the concept of microservices brings in, with respect to SOA, is the fact that each microservice should be independently testable and deployable. Although these...