Application builds when broken down into multiple smaller service components, are known as microservices. When compared to the traditional Monolithic way, a Microservice Architecture treats each microservice as a standalone entity/module, essentially helping to ease the maintenance of its code and related infrastructure. Each microservice of an application can be written in a different technology stack, and further be deployed, optimized and managed independently.
Though in theory, a Microservice Architecture specifically benefits build of complex large-scale applications, however, it is also widely used for small-scale application builds (for example, a simple shopping cart) - with an eye to scale further.
Benefits of a Microservice Architecture
- Individual microservices within an application can be developed and deployed through different technology stacks.
- Each microservice can be optimized, deployed or scaled independently.
- Better fault handling and error detection.
Benefits of a Microservice Architecture
- Individual microservices within an application can be developed and deployed through different technology stacks.
- Each microservice can be optimized, deployed or scaled independently.
- Better fault handling and error detection.
Components of a Microservice Architecture
A modern cloud-native application running on Microservice Architecture relies on the following critical components:
- Containerization (through platforms like Docker) - for effective management and deployment of services by breaking them into multiple processes.
- Orchestration (through platforms like Kubernetes) - for configuration, assignment and management of available system resources to services.
- Service Mesh (through platforms like Istio) - for inter-service communication through a mesh of service- proxies to connect, manage and secure microservices.
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