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Mastering PHP 7
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Mastering PHP 7

by Branko Ajzele
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
9h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding microservices

The term microservices denotes an architectural style of building applications taking the form of loosely coupled services. These independently deployable services are tiny applications most often built via a web service technology. While one service can communicate via SOAP, the other can be do so via REST, Apache Thrift, or something else. There is no standard to specify the firm requirements here. The general idea is to take a large monolithic application and slice it down into several smaller applications, that is, services, but doing so in a manner that serves a business goal.

The following diagram tries to visualize this concept:

Popularized by the likes of Netflix and Amazon, the microservices style sets ...

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