What Is a Microservice Architecture? Why Is It Important Now?

4 years ago dzone.com

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We have been building software applications for many years using various tools, technologies, architectural patterns and best practices. It is evident that many software applications become large complex monolith over a period for various reasons.

It breaks downs a large software application to a number of loosely coupled microservices.

Each microservice can be developed, deployed and maintained independently as long as it operates without breaching a well-defined set of APIs called contract to communicate with other microservices. As large complex software applications are decomposed to a number of small microservices, each microservice can be developed by small “one-pizza” or “two-pizza” teams independently.

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