Introducing Microservices

The Microservices architecture is, basically, service-oriented architecture done well. After years of working with Service-Oriented Architecture, software developers have realized what Service-Oriented Architecture should be like, and this is basically what Microservices architecture is--it's an evolution of the Service-Oriented Architecture.

Microservices are small, autonomous services that perform one function well while working with other services as well.

Microservices introduces a new set of additional design principles, which teach us how to size a service correctly. Previously, there was no guidance on how to size a service, and what to include in a service. The traditional Service-Oriented Architecture resulted in monolithic large services, and because of the size of the service, these services became inefficient to scale up.

Let's look into the advantages of using Microservices.