Requirements to start working on microservices

Now that you understand why you can use PHP (especially the latest release, version 7) for your next project, it is time to talk about other requirements for the success of your microservices project.

You probably have the importance of the scalability of your application in mind, but how can you do it within a budget? The response is virtualization. With this technology, you will be wasting less resources. In the past, only one Operating System (OS) could be executed at a time on the same hardware, but with the birth of virtualization, you can have multiple OSes running concurrently. The greatest achievement in your project will be that you will be running more servers dedicated to your microservices but using less hardware.

Given the advantages provided by the virtualization and containerization, nowadays using containers in the development of an application based on microservices is a default standard. There are multiple containerization...