Microservices
Explore the microservices architecture pattern to understand how software applications can be divided into smaller, independent components. Learn about the key elements like API gateways, service registries, and load balancers. Understand the benefits of improved scalability, maintainability, and flexibility, as well as challenges such as complexity and debugging. This lesson helps you determine when microservices are appropriate for application development.
Overview
Microservices architecture is a design pattern in which a website or application is divided into smaller, independent components known as microservices that may be created and deployed individually. This approach to web architecture is designed to improve the scalability, maintainability, and flexibility of an application by allowing different components to be developed, tested, and deployed independently.
Components of microservices architecture
There are several key components that make up a microservices architecture. These include the following:
Microservices
These are the smaller, independent components of the application, which are designed to perform a specific function or task. Each microservice is self-contained and communicates with other microservices through well-defined APIs.
API gateway
This is the component that sits between the client and microservices, routing requests from the client to the appropriate microservice and returning the ...