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The Principles of Planning and Implementing Microservices

by This architecture is composed of many aspects; how to break down this decoupled architecture?

This decoupling allows more flexibility, compared to a monolithic application, since each service is independent and can be developed, deployed, and maintained regardless of the other services that compose the application.

This approach puts in the centre a service that handles the registration by tracking changes (the Registrar service); it can be done either by subscribing to events or by pulling information from the environment.

Melvin Conway’s words summarise this concept: Simply put, the ownership of service is crucial to keep the microservices solution efficient by reducing the communication efforts and the cost of changes.