Microservices Architecture and Docker Compose

3 years ago medium.com

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Before getting into Microservices architecture, we’ll look into the Monolithic applications and it’s constraints. The monolithic architecture is considered to be a traditional way of building applications. A monolithic application is a single-tiered application architecture in which different components are combined into one single program and resides in single platform.

In Micros ervices architecture, the entire application is split up into independently deployable modules which communicate with each other through defined methods and APIs.

Using Compose is basically a three-step process: Docker compose uses a project name to isolate environments from each other.

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