Microservices vs. Monolithic Architecture

Explore the latest development techniques, Microservices are an accelerating trend these days.

Having come into light just a few years ago, microservices are an accelerating trend these days. Indeed, the microservices approach offers tangible benefits including an increase in scalability, flexibility, agility, and other significant advantages. Netflix, Google, Amazon, and other tech leaders have successfully switched from a monolithic architecture to microservices. Meanwhile, many companies consider this example as the most efficient way for business growth.

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Serverless Vs Microservices Architecture - A Deep Dive

Companies need to be thinking long-term before even starting a software development project. These needs are solved at the level of architecture: business owners want to assure agility, scalability, and performance.

The top contenders for scalable solutions are serverless and microservices. Both architectures prioritize security but approach it in their own ways. Let’s take a look at how businesses can benefit from the adoption of serverless architecture vs microservices, examine their differences, advantages, and use cases.

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The Service Mesh in the Microservices World - DZone Microservices

The software industry has come a long journey and throughout this journey, Software Architecture has evolved a lot. Starting with 1-tier (Single-node), 2-tier (Client/ Server), 3-tier, and Distributed are some of the Software Architectural patterns we saw in this journey.

The Problem

The majority of software companies are moving from Monolithic architecture to Microservices architecture, and Microservices architecture is taking over the software industry day-by-day. While monolithic architecture has many benefits, it also has so many shortcomings when catering to modern software development needs. With those shortcomings of monolithic architecture, it is very difficult to meet the demand of the modern-world software requirements and as a result, microservices architecture is taking control of the software development aggressively. The Microservices architecture enables us to deploy our applications more frequently, independently, and reliably meeting modern-day software application development requirements.

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Why Transition From Monolith to Microservices?

**Microservices architecture **is a way of creating applications through loosely coupling services. Every service represents a system component that can be created and maintained separately, executing an independent business goal.

Microservices are basically small services that work independently as part of a more complex system. They are easy to manage, portable, and created in order to accomplish the business objectives of the application. They can be developed with the use of different programming languages, like Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, etc.

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

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. A monolith software application is like a large ball of spaghetti with criss-cross dependencies among its constituent modules. It becomes more complex to develop, deploy and maintain monoliths, constraining the agility and competitive advantages of development teams. Also, let us not undermine the challenge of clearing any sort of technical debt monoliths accumulate, as changing part of monolith code may have cascading impact of destabilizing a working software in production.

Over the years, architectural patterns such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservices have emerged as alternatives to Monoliths.

SOA was arguably the first architectural pattern aimed at solving the typical monolith issues by breaking down a large complex software application to sub-systems or “services”. All these services communicate over a common enterprise service bus (ESB). However, these sub-systems or services are actually mid-sized monoliths, as they share the same database. Also, more and more service-aware logic gets added to ESB and it becomes the single point of failure.

Microservice as an architectural pattern has gathered steam due to large scale adoption by companies like Amazon, Netflix, SoundCloud, Spotify etc. It breaks downs a large software application to a number of loosely coupled microservices. Each microservice is responsible for doing specific discrete tasks, can have its own database and can communicate with other microservices through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to solve a large complex business problem. 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.

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From the Simple to the Complex: Monolith vs. Microservices

Monolith vs. microservices: a long path from a simple structure to a complex architecture.

Working in the software development industry, I often see articles on monolith pros and cons, microservices pros and cons, monolith vs. microservices, etc. — and much less often about the correct transitions between architectural approaches and their interactions. While projects can grow rapidly or dramatically change their course of development, you need to know when and what architectural approach will help support the system.

This article is for those for whom the monolith hasn’t solved problems and only aggravates all processes. It will also come in handy for those who are just getting acquainted with microservices. I will not say which is better, but I will share my experience of migrating from a monolithic to a microservice architecture.

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