Episode 93 - Microservices
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
English - March 16, 2019 16:21 - 17 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 ..
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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.
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