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Monolith vs. Microservices Architecture

Continuing our journey on learning more about Microservices, today, we’re discussing the differences in following Monolithic and Microservices architecture patterns. As we’ve already investigated what microservices are, let’s start with the concept of the monolith.

For instance, you might want to empower your shipment app with additional features.

Just imagine, you need to change the database for one small part of your app.

Therefore, the microservices bring the following benefits for your application: • Principle of modularity increases the overall agility of the development process; • High modularity, scalability, and reusability of the app’s logic parts; • The development tech stack is unlimited; • Easy code maintenance — fixing, modifying, and replacing the parts of your app doesn’t require wholesale redevelopment; • Scalable and independent engineering teams — services are small, so you need only a handful of developers; • New developers’ productivity is higher due to the smaller codebase; • Services are independently developed and deployed artifacts, which significantly speeds up the time to market.