Microservices architecture — tutorial for beginners
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What are microservices?
Until now, the most popular way to develop applications was to build with the monolithic approach, which means that the UI and the data access code are combined together in a single software on a single platform.
But when applications started to grow and became more complexed, developers began to use the microservices architecture, where the application is structured as a single-function module connected together.
Let’s get a closer look at the difference between the microservices architecture and the monolithic approach, and let’s check what benefits and drawbacks can microservices architecture bring.
In the image below, you can see the visualized difference between the microservices architecture and the monolith application. Microservices application consists of the few single…
