Microservices architecture to the rescue
We saw the problems caused by monolithic architecture. These problems lead developers to switch from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture.
In microservices architecture, the server-side application is divided into services. A service (or microservice) is a small and independent process that constitutes a particular functionality of the complete server-side application. For example, you can have a service for payment processing, another service for account management, and so on; the services need to communicate with each other via a network.
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What do you mean by "small" service?
You must be wondering how small a service needs to be and how to tell whether a service is small or not. Well, ...
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