Software Architect's Handbook

Leveraging a microservice chassis

In a monolithic application, cross-cutting concerns can be designed and developed once. After their development is complete and they are available for use, they can be leveraged throughout the application.

Microservices are independently deployable, self-contained services. As a result, implementing a cross-cutting concern has to be done repeatedly for each microservice. This can make it prohibitively expensive for an organization to develop microservices when considering the development resources that would be needed. A system may consist of hundreds of microservices, and your team may be creating new ones throughout the life of the application. The process of creating a new microservice should be made ...