Microservices Architecture

Abstract

After the initial three chapters, you now have set a solid knowledge base to distinguish between the microservices style of software architecture and the architecture of a traditional monolith. You learned the technique of breaking down the monolith into multiple small logical and physically separate groupings called microservices, thereby improving the scale out capability in a flexible manner. While in the traditional monolith schema of architecture you have one single, big application to manage, the same application when redesigned into a microservices architecture will be more than one single deployment and hence many more concerns like the intermicroservice communications, will pop up. You will explore the details of this new set of architectural concerns in this chapter. You will also explore a few relevant trends in the software paradigm that have compelled software architects to move away from traditional architectural styles.