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Why microservice architectures make sense
Microservices architecture is an architectural design choice. It structures an application into a collection of fine-grained microservices, which are responsible for specific parts of the application. Many digitally focused organizations have adopted a microservices architecture as it gives them increased freedom and performance with respect to software development: Freedom to make decisions, react to necessary changes, or adopt and embrace new technologies. Performance, as it allows to deliver value to customers faster.
Microservices and their Key Benefits
In order to build a microservices architecture, one needs to have microservices first. But what are microservices? In its essence, microservices are small, autonom software applications that focus on doing one thing well. From a software application development perspective, they are nothing special. It is the school of thought that defines microservices - shaping their resulting scope and characteristics.
Thinking in microservices fights against the challenges and problems experienced by many organizations when developing monolithic applications. Even with good development practices in place, large monolithic codebases can make it extremely difficult to actively drive further development, incorporate new features and adapt to changes. Where do new features have to be implemented? Does similar functionality already exist? Which parts of the application are coupled and need changes? Development might become increasingly difficult and complex that large monolithic applications stagnate or even freeze in progress.
Microservices are small independent services that have service boundaries aligned with respect to business boundaries. These explicit boundaries keep them from growing out of their scope. Microservices are autonomous services which can be seen as independent entities. They can be developed and deployed independently from each other. This results in many and diverse benefits, which have their foundation in distributed systems. Key benefits include: :::