Define an architecture that structures the application as a set of loosely coupled, collaborating services. This approach corresponds to the Y-axis of the Scale Cube. Each service implements a set of narrowly read more…
related functions. For example, an application might consist of services such as the order management service, the customer management service etc.
Services communicate using either synchronous protocols such as HTTP/REST or asynchronous protocols such as AMQP. Services can be developed and deployed independently of one another. Each service has its own database in order to be decoupled from other services. Data consistency between services is maintained using an event-driven architecture
Forces
- There is a team of developers working on the application
- New team members must quickly become productive
- The application must be easy to understand and modify
- You want to practice continuous deployment of the application
- You must run multiple copies of the application on multiple machines in order to satisfy scalability and availability requirements
- You want to take advantage of emerging technologies (frameworks, programming languages, etc)
Examples
Fictitious e-commerce application
Let’s imagine that you are building an e-commerce application that takes orders from customers, verifies inventory and available credit, and ships them. The application consists of several components including the StoreFrontUI, which implements the user interface, along with some backend services for checking credit, maintaining inventory and shipping orders. The application consists of a set of services.
Ref: microservices.io/patterns/microservices.html