DZone
Integration Zone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
  • Refcardz
  • Trend Reports
  • Webinars
  • Zones
  • |
    • Agile
    • AI
    • Big Data
    • Cloud
    • Database
    • DevOps
    • Integration
    • IoT
    • Java
    • Microservices
    • Open Source
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Web Dev
DZone > Integration Zone > Do You Need a Microservices Architecture?

Do You Need a Microservices Architecture?

Here is a brief overview of the pros and cons of microservice and when they should and should not be used.

Manu Pk user avatar by
Manu Pk
·
May. 02, 16 · Integration Zone · Presentation
Like (3)
Save
Tweet
6.44K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

Last week I spoke at the Bangalore Software Architects Meetup on the topic "Do you need microservices architecture?". Here is the presentation and bit more info about it.

Over the last few years there has been lot of attention on microservices. After the initial "hype" we saw that which problems it can solve and which it can not. I have tried to cover what are microservices and where they can be useful and where not. I want to share these guidelines which can be used to choose between a monolith and microservices.

I feel that one must answer the below questions before being able to choose a microservices architecture and it will be beneficial to you if the answers to these questions are "YES".

  1. Does your services represents different business cases/domains..?

  2. Does the services needs to be deployed and managed independently..?

  3. Does different parts of the application has different scaling/Technology needs..?

A modular monolith can be transformed to a set of microservices in case the need arises. So, we should start with a monolith when we are not sure about the future.

Do you need microservices architecture? from Manu Pk
microservice Architecture

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Popular on DZone

  • Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’
  • Image Classification Using SingleStore DB, Keras, and Tensorflow
  • Message Queuing and the Database: Solving the Dual Write Problem
  • An Introduction to Graph Data

Comments

Integration Partner Resources

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Send feedback
  • Careers
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • MVB Program
  • Become a Contributor
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 600 Park Offices Drive
  • Suite 300
  • Durham, NC 27709
  • support@dzone.com
  • +1 (919) 678-0300

Let's be friends:

DZone.com is powered by 

AnswerHub logo