{"id":5382,"date":"2015-05-08T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2015-04-03T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:30:50","slug":"microservices-the-rise-of-the-minimal-component-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/microservices-the-rise-of-the-minimal-component-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Microservices: The Rise of the Minimal Component Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microservices <\/a>are lightweight fine-grained services that can be deployed with middleware or brokers. \u00a0The idea behind the approach has been around for some time, but a convergence of technologies, like the cloud, containers and REST\/JSON services is making the approach more possible to achieve. \u00a0Rather than build monolithic applications using \u201cbig balls of mud <\/a>with tangled spaghetti code<\/a>\u201c, a microservice architecture builds many small and focused components that can easily communicate with each other.<\/p>\n

Owen Garrett<\/a>, head of product for Nginx, recently described<\/a> how Amazon is using microservices. \u00a0“When you go to Amazon.com and type in Nike shoe<\/em>, over 170 individual applications get triggered potentially from that search — everything from pricing to images of the shoes to reviews of the shoes to recommendations of other products you may want to purchase. Each of those were individual services or subfeatures, if you like, of an application or an overarching experience, and all those were connected via HTTP. Each might be built in different languages. Each of those may have different requirements in terms of the data store, in terms of scaling and automation. Those were the attributes that we saw that were the fundamental anatomy of microservices architecture.”<\/p>\n

Benefits of the microservices<\/a> approach include scalability, agility, and greater resilience. \u00a0More specifically<\/a>, microservice benefits include:<\/p>\n