Everything you should know about Microservices

Microservices, also known as the microservice architecture, is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services. This approach allows for more flexible, scalable, and manageable applications.

In a monolithic architecture, all software components are interconnected and interdependent. If any component or single application’s function fails, the complete application could go down. Imagine you have a web application including functions like payment, history, and log in. If “history” function consumes more memory, the entire application would have to experience the same issue.

Unlike monolithic architecture, microservices break the large software projects into independent, loosely coupled, and smaller modules. In Microservices, the small programs are combined to deliver the functionalities of a large monolithic app

Read further to understand what exactly microservices are, its benefits and challenges associated with it and what can be done to overcome the challenges