04 Jul microservices

In a service oriented architecture, micro-services are fine grained services that are designed to accomplish exactly one thing very efficiently. Tech Target brings up the following advantages:

“Among their advantages for software development, microservices:

• Are easily deployed.
• Require less production time.
• Can scale quickly.
• Can be reused among different projects.
• Work well with containers, such as Docker.
• Complement cloud activities.”

The disadvantages they mention are actually advantages of microservices over traditional large applications if designed well.