Microservices Experts

Microservices are an architectural and organizational approach to software development that has been acquiring popularity in recent years since companies want to become more agile and evolve towards a DevOps methodology.

The goal of deploying microservices is to design an application as a set of small, independent services that work together to solve problems. Each microservice takes care of a specific task and communicates with the others through a predefined interface. They can be programmed in different languages and use different data storage technologies.

The peculiarity of microservices is that they allow developers to iterate quickly and independently thanks to the isolation of APIs. In this way, they can modify only one service by incorporating small improvements in time-limited iterations without altering the rest of the infrastructure.

Some of the advantages of microservices are:

• Greater scalability: Microservices can be replicated, allowing you to increase the performance and capacity of an application very easily (or automatically, in the best case).
• Better reliability: If one microservice fails, it only affects that part of the application, so the rest continues working correctly.
• Greater flexibility: Microservices are easier to modify and update individually. So, it is possible to improve and change an application quickly and easily.

In a monolithic architecture, all processes are compiled into a single piece and run as a single service, so that if a process experiences a pike in demand, the entire architecture needs to scale. The more the code base grows, the more complex it is to add or improve the features of that application. This complexity makes difficult to experiment and implement new ideas.

In a microservices architecture, an application is created with separate elements that work together to perform the same tasks. Each of these services, called "microservices," performs a single function and can be upgraded, deployed, and scaled to meet the demand for specific functions of an application without affecting the operation of the other microservices.

Sometimes monolithic architectures are chosen instead of microservices due to their simplicity and low cost. However, if the software needs to evolve, there will come a point where this type of architecture will not be able to respond to the growing demands of the application and there will be problems in terms of updates, scalability, deployment and maintenance.

Conversely, microservices architecture facilitates scalability and reduces application development time. Thus, besides always being able to adopt the latest technology as it evolves, it helps to accelerate the launch of the new architecture to the market.

Therefore, we recommend to use microservices in the following situations:

• The monolithic application is so successful that its performance begins to be affected in high-load situations (for example, in Black Friday seasons for e-commerce stores).
• The company that will develop the application belongs to a sector constantly changing or to a highly competitive sector, such as technology, e-commerce or finance.
• The application will be better if it’s developed with a microservices architecture (if the application is expected to have a high volume of traffic, it will use advanced tools, continuous delivery is required, or you want to improve the efficiency of the software development, among other cases).

Microservices are related to the concept of "container", an individual software package that includes the code along with all the dependencies needed to ensure the fast execution of the application or service. In a microservices architecture, each service is created individually within containers in the same environment.

Containers allow you to create replicable infrastructure templates, automate tasks, reduce the effort of configuring new functionality, and quickly identify components that need corrective or preventive actions. In that sense, they help to simplify the configuration, parameterization, maintenance and management of packages, which turns into greater development agility and time savings.

hiberus is the leader in the development of microservices architectures. Our team of experts has the skills, experience and knowledge to help you migrate your digital business to a microservices-based architecture.

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