Decomposing the Application
When approaching an existing or new application, we will need to determine where the seams are and how to decompose the application into smaller services—among the more challenging and important things to get right in a microservices architecture. We want to make sure to minimize coupling, and that we keep closely related things together. As with good component design, we strive for high cohesion and low coupling in our service design.
Coupling is the degree of interdependence, and low coupling means we have a very small number of interdependencies. This is important for maintaining an independent lifecycle for our services. To keep coupling low, we need to carefully consider how we partition the application, as well ...
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