Game changing – microservices
The massive usage of containers has raised a new architectural flag named microservices. Previously, architects and developers have sought to decouple their monolithic applications into more loosely coupled and reusable modules known as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With the advent of containers and thanks to the cloud paradigm and diversity of APIs, an application is now decomposed by placing each application entity into a small and mono-task service that scales across a fleet of servers and communicates with the rest of the other services through APIs.
The term microservices existed before the recent massive switch to containers. Although SOA existed to resolve the drawbacks of monolithic and big applications, ...
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