Due to the increasingly competitive economy, modern companies need to meet their customers’ wishes quickly. Agility is even more important for companies whose technology is a differentiating factor.
Thus, the companies must have a software architecture that allows them to react promptly to the market.
This is just one of the benefits of the microservice architecture model used by platforms like Netflix and Spotify.
After all, what are microservices?
Unlike traditional monolithic architecture, microservice architecture is an approach that structures the application through several small autonomous services that work together. Each microservice is made according to specific circumstances of the business, such as user interface, billing or service. The service deployment process is autonomous and automated, in addition to enabling continuous deliveries even in large and complex systems.
Find below the main benefits of microservice architecture:
1. Scalability
As the services are autonomous, it is possible to scale only the overloaded parts of the system.
2. Technological heterogeneity
As the services are not linked, specific technologies can be adopted for each job. For instance, it is possible to use a specific technology only in a part of the system that needs better performance. Using the same logic, you can also adopt new technologies more quickly and with fewer risks.
3. Resilience
By using autonomous services, if a particular system component fails, you can isolate the problem without causing the entire application to stop.
4. Ease of deployment
Due to the possibility of making changes to a service autonomously, deploying it is easier and more efficient, which allows new functionalities to be made available to users more quickly.
5. Possibility of combination
Since the services are autonomous, you can combine them to create other systems. Thus, businesses that are very different from the original project can “borrow” such functionalities.
6. Code replacement
Such architecture reduces the risk and cost of total replacement of the code basis, since the services are small.
7. More efficient maintenance
Due to the smaller and autonomous code bases in each service, the teams responsible for each microservice become more efficient as they focus on a specific part of the system.
