Microservices 101

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Microservices aren’t new, but the technology to make them feasible at scale is. A microservice channels the Unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well” into a conceptual unit of a project. By carving the project up into pieces, each one can function independently of the others and are tied together by the main application or front-end.

Microservices have many advantages over more traditional monolithic application…