Effective microservices

Abstract

For several years, monolithic architecture has been the widely-used architecture for building web and mobile applications. These applications were mostly characterized by individual programs handling multiple functionalities. Though monolithic applications were known to be easier to operate, as the systems grew bigger, they introduced complexity for both the coding and deployment stages of software development life cycle. Single point of failure, technology lock-in, and limited scalability are a few other drawbacks of monolithic applications. Recently past, microservices architecture has evolved as a paradigm shift in decomposing large monolithic applications into smaller manageable pieces with their own code base and deployment infrastructure. Considering practical business applications, multiple microservices are required to fulfill one single case of usage, still we can describe microservices as simple and stateless.