Cloud-Based Microservices: Techniques, Challenges, and Solutions

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C. RajasekharaiahCloud-Based Microserviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6564-2_2

2. Microservices: What, Why, and How?

Chandra Rajasekharaiah¹  

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Suwanee, GA, USA

 

Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

—Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977).

A standard set of challenges face every enterprise with goals of modernizing. The usual suspects are their monolithic or legacy applications, their hardware and software infrastructure, and their software/service availability. Enterprises are usually in need of transforming their solutions to align with their long-term vision and goals. What differs is ...