Cloud-Native Applications in Java

Microservice identification

The name microservice does not necessarily mean that the service has to be small in size. But it has the following characteristics:

• Single responsibility principle: This is the core design principle of microservices. They should do one business unit of a task and do it completely. If there is low coupling, the services will be easier to modify and deploy or even replace altogether.
• Granular: Microservice granularity is contained within the intersection of a single functional domain, a single data domain and its immediate dependencies, a self-sufficient packaging, and a technology domain.
• Bounded: A service should have access to resources within its bounded context, which is managed by the same team. However, it ...