Introducing Microservices
Let's first define microservices architecture and then go into the details of microservices. Microservices architecture became a hot term, but there wasn't any formal definition. In fact, to date, there is no official consensus regarding its properties or definition. However, different people have tried to define it. I found a definition on Martin Fowler's blog very convincing. He and James Lewis defined it this way:
The microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently deployable ...
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