What are Microservices?
When a large application is broken down into a number of small, independent services that can communicate with each other over a network, this approach is known as Microservices. These services can each be created, deployed, and scaled independently. Each microservice carries out a particular business activity and interacts with other microservices via clear APIs.
This is why even if a piece of code fails, only that particular microservice gets affected making no major change to the whole application and that is how applications like Amazon and Netflix continue to serve their customers uninterruptedly.
Microservices can be developed in any programming language. They communicate with each other using language-neutral Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) such as Representational State Transfer (REST).
For developing an optimal microservice architecture, you need to follow some design principles.
10 Microservices Design Principles That Every Developer Should Know
Ever wondered, how big applications like Amazon, Netflix, etc. never face any major faults and are always up and running? Is it possible for such big and complex pieces of code to always be error and exceptions free? Well, that’s very hard to believe, right? But the answer is NO. They do face faults but are always running and serving millions of users without the services getting down. And that’s where Microservices come to play.
In this article, we’ll be going through the microservices design principles that every developer should follow in order to run an application efficiently. So, before that let’s understand what are microservices.
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