Microservices (Explained by Example) Microservices technology is a new pattern of software engineering that has been popularized recently. In this video we will explain what microservices are, their pros and cons by example. A lot of companies have moved in the early 2010 such as twitter and netflex to the microservices architecture. Microservices technology is a pattern where you can break down big application into smaller services and what previously is a function call is now a network call GET or POST through HTTP. In order to explain what microservices are, we need to explain how a traditional classical application looks like. Here is an example .. Instagram View Picture, list comments, likes and Picture and Location. Picture Likes Comments Picture API (Thumbnails) Likes API Comments API Most popular comments Pros: Polyglot architecture Easy scaling for microservices that needs scaling. Better Team management, each microservice is a team Easier to innovate certain areas. Each microservice can pick their own database Scale busy services instead of entire system Cons: Very complicated to implement, network call, service discovery Very Difficult to debug Hard to find where the fault is Network calls fails adds complexity. 5:00 6:50 proxy vs reverse

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