microservices

Definitions

A software architectural style in which an application is composed of small, independent services that communicate over well-defined APIs.

A method of developing software systems as a collection of autonomous, modular services that can be deployed and scaled independently.

Examples

Our engineering team decided to migrate the legacy monolithic application into a set of independent microservices.

Using microservices allows each team to deploy updates to their specific service without affecting the entire system.

The company adopted a microservices architecture to improve scalability and fault tolerance across their cloud infrastructure.

Synonyms

distributed architecture modular services decoupled components service-oriented architecture micro-architecture fine-grained services distributed systems

Antonyms

monolithic architecture monolith single-tier application unified codebase all-in-one system tightly coupled system