DZone
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
Refcards Trend Reports
Events Video Library
Refcards
Trend Reports

Events

View Events Video Library

Zones

Culture and Methodologies Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Culture and Methodologies
Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering
AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture
Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding
Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks

Generative AI has transformed nearly every industry. How can you leverage GenAI to improve your productivity and efficiency?

SBOMs are essential to circumventing software supply chain attacks, and they provide visibility into various software components.

Related

  • Microservices Testing: Key Strategies and Tools
  • What is MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform Capabilities and Strengths
  • Microservices Online Shop
  • Micro Frontends Architecture

Trending

  • Stabilizing ETL Pipelines With Airflow, Presto, and Metadata Contracts
  • Lessons Learned in Test-Driven Development
  • Beyond the Checklist: A Security Architect's Guide to Comprehensive Assessments
  • Reducing Hallucinations Using Prompt Engineering and RAG
  1. DZone
  2. Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
  3. Deployment
  4. 25 Microservices Terms You Need to Know

25 Microservices Terms You Need to Know

These key terms and definitions will give you a great place to start to jump into the microservices zone and start learning through tutorials, developer tips, and more!

By 
Arran Glen user avatar
Arran Glen
·
Jan. 30, 18 · Analysis
Likes (14)
Comment
Save
Tweet
Share
15.5K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

With the launch of our microservices zone, we compiled and defined the basic terms you'll need to know to understand the zone's topics and give you a spring board to jump into our wealth of microservices content!

A

API access controls and gateways: How to control the security of microservices.

Application Programming Interface (API): A software interface that allows users to configure and interact with other programs, usually by calling from a list of functions.

C

Container: Resource isolation at the OS (rather than machine) level, usually (in UNIX-based systems) in user space. Isolated elements vary by containerization strategy and often include file system, disk quota, CPU and memory, I/O rate, root privileges, and network access. Much lighter-weight than machine-level virtualization and sufficient for many isolation requirement sets.

Continuous Delivery: A software engineering approach in which continuous integration, automated testing, and automated deployment capabilities allow software to be developed and deployed rapidly, reliably, and repeatedly with minimal human intervention.

D

Decouple: Breaking monolithic applications into smaller components so legacy enterprises can pursue digital transformation.

Distributed System: Any system or application that operates across a wide network of services or nodes.

Distributed Tracing: A category of tools and practices that allow developers to analyze the behavior of a service and troubleshoot problems by creating services that record information about requests and operations that are performed.

Domain-Driven Design: A philosophy for developing software in which development is focused primarily on the business logic, the activities and issues that an application is supposed to perform or solve.

E

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): A utility that combines a messaging system with middleware to provide comprehensive communication services for software applications.

Eventual Consistency: A data consistency model used to make distributed applications highly available by keeping data in sync and up-to-date across all services or nodes.

F

Fault isolation: Enables a microservice to crash and restart without causing a service outage.

Function as a service: A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functionalities without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.

H

Holacracy: A management practice for organizations that are separated into autonomous and independent departments based on roles, which can organize themselves and make decisions based on their duties. Holacracies are focused on rapidly iterating.

J

Java Virtual Machine (JVM): Abstracted software that allows a computer to run a Java program.

M

Message Broker: Middleware that translates a message sent by one piece of software to be read by another piece of software.

Microservices architecture: A development method of designing your applications as modular services that seamlessly adapt to a highly scalable and dynamic environment.

Monolith: A style of software architecture where the data and UI are all found on one platform, in a single program.

O

Orchestration: The method to automate the management and deployment of your applications and containers.

OWAT2: Microservices security best practice with OAuth.

S

Serverless: Cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources.

Service Discovery: The act of finding the network location of a service instance for further use.

Service Mesh: An infrastructure layer focused on service-to-service communication, primarily used for distributed systems and cloud-native applications.

Sociocracy: A mode of governance without a centralized power structure, aiming for less independence between teams to focus on organization-wide strategy.

T

Twelve-factor application technology: A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

W

Web Service: A function that can be accessed over the web in a standardized way using APIs that are accessed via HTTP and executed on a remote system.

microservice application Web Service Cloud computing Software architecture

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Related

  • Microservices Testing: Key Strategies and Tools
  • What is MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform Capabilities and Strengths
  • Microservices Online Shop
  • Micro Frontends Architecture

Partner Resources

×

Comments

The likes didn't load as expected. Please refresh the page and try again.

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Support and feedback
  • Community research
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

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

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 3343 Perimeter Hill Drive
  • Suite 100
  • Nashville, TN 37211
  • [email protected]

Let's be friends: