Microservice, Miniservice, and Macroservice

4 years ago dzone.com

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by Every organization is trying to decompose its application/product and convert into Microservices, so that they can sell their product in name of Micro-Services based architecture.

You can call your service as Micro-Service if and only if it is: So, if your service is not following any of this principle, then it is not a Microservice, and you may be working on Mini-service, which I will explain shortly.

You can call your service as Miniservice if: Now, if all your service domain services share a single database and application server and call each service through direct calls, as they all are deployed in the same JVM, then your application is a Monolith (Macroservice).

Teams and developers are decentralizing their application as much as they can, however not writing as many Microservices as you might think.

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