Microservices has been gaining popularity in last couple of years due to its versatile nature around business capabilities, high maintainability and loosely coupled architecture. It also enables companies to release software faster as compared to monolithic applications. Each individual team within can build and deploy the services that it owns independently, without affecting or disrupting other teams.
The Basics of micro services :
What exactly microservice architecture is
Well going by book definition
In microservice architectures, applications are built and deployed as simple, highly decoupled, focussed services. They connect to each other over lightweight language agnostic communication mechanisms, which often times means simple HTTP APIs and message queues and are resilient in nature.
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