Microservices are a hot topic when people talk about cloud native application development, and for good reason. Microservices architecture is a structured manner for deploying a collection of self-contained and independent services in an organization. They are game changing compared to some past application development methodologies, allowing development teams to work independently and at cloud native scale. Let’s dive into the history of application development, characteristics of microservices and what that means for cloud native observability.
Microservices architecture is designed to make application software development in a cloud native environment simpler, not more difficult.