The architecture described in the previous chapter is not a clean microservice architecture. You will never meet one in its pure form in any enterprise. It is more like something that we meet in a real company moving from monolithic to microservices.
We will talk about the microservice architecture when the application is developed in the form of many small services that communicate with each other using some simple API, usually over HTTP and REST. The services implement business functions and can be deployed independently. In most cases, it is desirable that the service deployment is automated.
The individual services can be developed using different programming languages, can use different data storage, and can run on different ...
