July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
61 pages
1h 18m
English
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Chapter 7. Jump on the Bandwagon Pitfall
You must embrace microservices. It’s undeniably the latest trend in the industry, everyone else is doing it, and besides, it’s great to have on your resume.
The jump on the bandwagon pitfall is all about embracing microservices before analyzing your business needs, business drivers, and overall organizational structure and technology environment. While the microservices architecture is a very powerful and popular architecture style, it’s not suited for every application or environment.
You can easily avoid this pitfall by first understanding the advantages and disadvantages of microservices. Then, once you’ve gained a full understanding of what microservices is all about, you can match your business needs and goals to the architectural characteristics to determine if microservices is a fit for your situation and organization. You can also avoid this pitfall by learning more about other architecture patterns that may be a better fit for your situation.
Advantages and Disadvantages
The first step in avoiding this pitfall is to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the microservices architecture style. The following are some of the more important advantages you should know about:
- Deployment
Ease of deployment is one of the primary drivers for moving to a microservices architecture. Microservices are small, single-purpose services deployed as separate applications. It is significantly easier and far less risk to deploy a single service ...
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