August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 51m
English
Content preview from Mastering Python Design Patterns - Second Edition
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Use cases
We can think of several use cases where microservices offer a clever answer. We can use a microservices architecture-based design every time we are building an application that has at least one of the following characteristics:
- There is a requirement to support different clients, including desktop and mobile
- There is an API for third parties to consume
- We have to communicate with other applications using messaging
- We serve requests by accessing a database, communicating with other systems, and returning the right type of response (JSON, XML, HTML or even PDF)
- There are logical components corresponding to different functional areas of the application