Microservices
What are the benefits of microservices?
Agility
The independent architecture allows the formation of small development teams, each focusing on one service and working within a clearly defined context. This enables projects to be realized independently and quickly, and shortens development cycles.
Flexible scaling
Each service is independently from other services scalable. So it is not only possible to sustain each service when there is an increase in demand, but teams can also accurately measure the costs of a function and adjust infrastructure requirements.
Easy deployment
Microservices make it possible to continuously integrate new services or provide new applications. This makes it easy to try out and discard new concepts or ideas. Since the costs of failure are low, microservices favor these experiments, facilitate code updates, and shorten the time-to-market for new concepts.
Technological flexibility
The microservice approach allows users to freely select and assemble the software modules that are necessary for the best solution of a specific task. In this way, the most suitable software module (tool) on the market can be selected for each specific problem and the best possible result can be achieved.
Reusable code
Through microservices software is divided into small, separate modules with their own functions. However, the code that was written for a particular function can be reused as a building block for other functions. This allows developers to use a building block without the need to write code from scratch.
Resilience
In conventional monolithic software architectures, the failure of one component usually leads to the failure of the entire application. Microservices, however, have service independence and thus avoid a complete failure, since only the respective function is affected, but not the entire application.
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