Until now, we have gone through a few definitions of microservices; now, let's discuss microservices in detail.
In short, a microservice architecture removes most of the drawbacks of SOA architectures. It is more code-oriented (we will discuss this in detail in the coming sections) than SOA services.
Slicing your application into a number of services is neither SOA nor microservices. However, combining service design and best practices from the SOA world along with a few emerging practices, such as isolated deployment, semantic versioning, providing lightweight services, and service discovery in polyglot programming, is microservices. We implement microservices to satisfy business features and implement them with ...
