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Microservices Architecture
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Application divided into small, independent services that communicate over the network. Each service owns its data and can be deployed independently.
+ Advantages
- •Independent scaling
- •Technology flexibility
- •Fault isolation
- •Faster deployments
- •Team autonomy
− Challenges
- •Network complexity
- •Distributed data management
- •Operational overhead
- •Testing complexity
Best For
Large organizationsHigh-scale applicationsComplex domainsMultiple teams