Building Microservices with .NET Core

Characteristics of a scalable microservice

In Scale Cube section, we largely focused on scaling the characteristics of an entire system or application. In this section, we will focus on scaling the characteristics of an individual microservice. A microservice is said to be scalable and performant when it exhibits the following characteristics:

• Known growth curve: For example, in the case of an order management system, we need to know how many orders are supported by the current services and how they are proportionate to the order fulfillment service metric (measured in "requests per seconds"). The current measured metrics around these are called baseline figures.
• Well-studied usage metrics: The traffic pattern generally reveals customer ...