What is a microservice?
Companies worldwide have used the microservice architecture model so widely that it has almost become a default way of software development. There are many companies having tens, hundreds, and even thousands of microservices at their disposal.
So, what exactly is the microservice model?
The microservice architecture model is organizing an application as a collection of services, called microservices, each of which is further responsible for a certain part of application logic, usually defined by a particular business capability.
As an example, consider an online marketplace application. The application may have multiple features, including search, a shopping cart, payments, order history, and much more. Each feature can be so different and complex on its own that it could be developed and maintained by a separate team – like search and payments in our example. In the microservice architecture model, each component would be an independent...
