4 Main Advantages of Microservices

Developing applications with a microservices (MCS) strategy can increase robustness and reduce time to market, but dividing programs into fine-grained services presents challenges. Here is what to expect.

Since the phrase was first used in 2010, MCS has gained traction among forward-thinking application development companies. A recent poll from Nginx found that 36 percent of surveyed organizations are now adopting microservices, with another 26 percent still in the research stage. This indicates that microservices are quickly approaching mainstream adoption. What is microservices architecture, exactly, and does it align with your organization's goals, abilities, and culture?

Here, we'll look at seven reasons why you should use microservices in your upcoming application development project, as well as five challenges it will help you to overcome.

Why Microservices are Important

Microservices, a subset of service-oriented architecture (SOA), is an architectural paradigm in which programs are divided into loosely linked services. Microservices boost modularity by utilizing fine-grained services and lightweight protocols, which makes it simpler to design, test, deploy, and—more importantly—change and manage applications.

Your business is undoubtedly still burdened by the monolithic era's centralized, multi-tier structures, which were utilized to build complete programs from a single codebase. When PCs ruled IT, that client-service approach was a great choice. However, due to the popularity of mobile devices and the cloud, back-end data must always be accessible for a variety of devices. A monolithic architecture makes it difficult to add new features or adapt to changing environments because every time a change is made, the entire application must be updated. Even worse, since everything is dependent on a single codebase, scaling up a single service or function requires scaling up the entire application, which is much more expensive.

Your code is divided into distinct services that operate as separate processes with microservices. In an orchestration of separate, communicating services, the output from one service is used as an input to another. Businesses who do not have a predetermined understanding of the range of devices their apps will support can benefit notably from microservices. Microservices give businesses the ability to create apps that offer unified user experiences on a variety of platforms, including the web, mobile, IoT, wearables, and fitness tracker environments.

Increased Tenacity

Your entire software is on the cloud and decentralized into services that function as distinct entities when using microservices. When employing microservices, any failure in code has a far less impact than when using a monolithic architecture, where it can negatively influence multiple services or functions. Your users won't even notice if numerous services are taken offline for maintenance.

Improved Scalability

Scalability is a key attribute of microservices. Businesses can scale a single service or function without scaling the entire program because each service is a separate component. It is possible to distribute business-critical services across several servers for enhanced performance and availability without affecting the performance of other services.

Rapid Time to Market

You do not have to write the entire codebase again to modify features because microservices operate with loosely coupled services. You only need to alter one particular service. You may launch your application and services more quickly by creating smaller application increments that can be independently tested and deployed.

Increased ROI and Decreased TCO

You can also optimize resources with microservices. Microservices allow you to deploy faster and pivot more easily when necessary because several teams can work on independent services. Your team's code will be more reusable and development time will be cut down. You can avoid using pricey equipment by decoupling services. Simple x86 computers will do. The increased efficiency of microservices reduces infrastructure expenses while also lowering downtime.