As software continues to become larger and more complicated, we need improved methods of managing and mitigating its complexity. As it grows alongside our business, we need better ways of dividing up the software so that multiple teams can participate in the construction effort.
As our demanding customer base grows, we must also be able to expand our software. At the same time, our application should be fault tolerant and able to scale quickly to meet peak demand. How do we then meet the demands of modern business while evolving and developing our application?
The microservices architectural pattern plays a pivotal role in contemporary software development. A distributed application composed of microservices solves these problems and more, but typically it’s more difficult, more complex, and more time consuming to architect than a traditional monolithic application. If these terms—microservices, distributed application, and monolithic application—are new to you, they will be explained soon.