Introduction to Microservices

Digitalization drives businesses in such a direction that every system should be resilient and available all the time. In order to achieve that, you have to make certain decisions about the application architecture. In this chapter, you will learn how systems evolved from calculation machines built to serve a specific purpose to general-purpose computers. Making the same parallel but on the software side, we will discuss what Monolithic applications are along with their pros and cons. Then, we will go through the need of having distributed applications dispersed across a network of computers. You will also learn about the Microservices architecture as a popular way for building distributed applications – how to design such applications, what challenges the Microservices architecture brings, and some of the applicable patterns that are often used.