November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
The microservices approach is the opposite of the traditional monolithic software approach, which consists of tightly integrated modules that ship infrequently and have to scale as a single unit. Traditional Java EE applications and the JBCP calendar application in this book are examples of monolithic applications. Take a look at the following diagram which depicts the monolithic architecture:

Although the monolithic approach fits well for some organizations and some applications, microservices is becoming popular with companies that need more options for agility and scalability in their ecosystem.
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