In this fast-moving world, businesses need to be nimble and be able to deliver changes to their customers faster than ever before. To keep up with that, software systems and teams should find ways to build things faster and deploy quicker. Enter microservices!

Microservices

Microservices architecture is the modern way distributed systems are built that addresses most of these needs. Microservices are a set of small, loosely coupled, independent services that have a single responsibility. Software applications in this architecture are built as a set of services that communicate over standard protocols such as HTTP (REST/SOAP APIs), message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and so on. This architecture has tons of benefits: Being “small” makes them quicker to build and deploy; being “loosely coupled” makes them platform and technology agnostic and independently scalable. This also allows for smaller two-pizza teams to own and manage their own set of services without overlaps or a need for bigger teams.