Service-based architecture is a hybrid of the microservices architecture style and is considered one of the most pragmatic architecture styles, mostly due to its architectural flexibility. Although service-based architecture is a distributed architecture, it doesn’t have the same level of complexity and cost as other distributed architectures, such as microservices or event-driven architecture, making it a very popular choice for many business-related applications.
Topology
The basic topology of service-based architecture follows a distributed macro layered structure consisting of a separately deployed user interface, separately deployed remote coarse-grained services, and a monolithic database. This basic topology is illustrated in Figure 13-1.
Services within this architecture style are typically coarse-grained “portions of an application” (usually called domain services) that are independent and separately deployed. Services are typically deployed in the same manner as any monolithic application would be (such as an EAR file, WAR file, or assembly) and as such do not require containerization (although you could deploy a domain service in a container such as Docker). Because the services typically share a single monolithic database, the number of services within an application context generally range between 4 and 12 services, with the average being about 7 services.
Figure 13-1. Basic topology of the service-based architecture ...
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