Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Deploying microservices

With their focus on statelessness and horizontal scaling, microservices work well with modern cloud environments. Nevertheless, when choosing a microservice architecture, deploying your application will tend to get more complex overall, as you will need to deploy more, different applications (all the more reason to stick with the twelve-factor app methodology).

However, each individual service will be easier to deploy than a big monolithic application. Depending on the service's size, it will also be easier to upgrade a service to a new runtime or to replace it with a new implementation entirely. Also, you can scale each microservice individually. This allows you to scale out heavily used parts of your application ...