Autonomous Services
Microservices is an architecture that is optimized around autonomy. Autonomy and loose coupling between the services are important characteristics of a microservices architecture. Loose coupling means that we can independently update one service without making changes to another. The loose coupling extends throughout the entire service, across the teams, and right down to the data store—a type of coupling that is often overlooked is at the data store.
Microservices interact through APIs, and they do not share database schema, data structures, or internal representations of the data. Teams that have been building web applications might be familiar with some of these concepts and have consumed other third-party services when ...
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