PaaS II (Azure Service Fabric, also known as Azure microservices)

Azure Service Fabric is a PaaS offer for distributed systems that simplifies the packing, provisioning, and management of scalable and reliable microservices. Before we start with a deep analysis, we should deal with the microservice architecture in general.

Let's take a look at the first diagram:

Core elements of this architecture are the services (or microservices). The services are defined by the following characteristics:

  • A service is small, which means a service offers only one function in contrast to the application with many functions.
  • A service is independent. This ...

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