Until recently, businesses were run on monolithic applications developed as a single yet autonomous unit. A slight tweak to the monolithic application affects the whole process and slows it down. For ...

If you could develop and deploy updates faster with less risk, wouldn’t you? Speed, autonomy and safety of the pros behind working within a microservices framework, according to Haiping Chen, a ...

Microservices promise to help break down monolithic applications and enable the consistent delivery of services. But they can't do the job without help. This is where event-driven architecture (EDA) ...

Big brands like Amazon and Netflix are embracing microservice architecture, but what is it, and how does it fit into application and software development? The software products we use every day for ...

A debate going on in the microservices world misses the point of why we deploy microservices in the first place: small is safer. Microservices and containers are quickly becoming part of the ...

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The traditional architecture for applications was a huge monolith that encompassed all its business activities and, later on, upgrades and changes. The result was an intertwined muck of a design, ...