Chapter 1
An Introduction to Microservices
Technology has changed, and continues to change, how the world behaves. In turn, these altered behaviors are putting new, challenging demands on the technology that supports it all. We have progressed from an era of 56k dialup modems to 100Gbps Ethernet in less than two decades. As the speed increased, it placed greater demand on corporations to develop faster software for which advanced and high-level software languages were developed to suit application needs. Similarly, on the systems side, we have evolved from mainframes to high-speed servers to making servers a commodity to virtualization and cloud. Now “containerize” is a verb, as containers are being utilized to use resources more efficiently. ...
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