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Microservices in a Nutshell. Pros and Cons.

Posted on Apr 11, 2015

Microservices in a Nutshell. Pros and Cons.

Microservices are an interesting approach for achieving modularization of an application. An application is built as a set of services. These services can be independently developed, tested, built, deployed and scaled. However, microservices are not suitable for every use case. This post discusses the benefits and drawbacks of microservices.