Microservices are becoming more and more popular. Nowadays, pretty much every engineer on a green field project should be considering using microservices in order to improve the quality of the systems they build. They should know the architectural principles involving such systems. We will expose the difference between microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). We will also introduce a great platform to write microservices, Node.js, which will allow us to create high-performing microservices with very little effort.
In this chapter, you will learn about microservices from the architectural point of view:
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