Why Should You Use Microservices and Containers?

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What to expect when you’re working with microservices and containers.

First of all, what are microservices? Microservices is a type of architecture that splits your application into multiple services that does a fine-grained function that’s a part of your application as a whole. Each of your microservices will have a different logical function for your application. Microservices is a more modern approach in an application’s architecture compared to a monolithic architecture where all your application’s components and functions are in a single instance. You can refer to a comparison of a monolithic to a microservices architecture on the diagram below.

Monoliths vs microservices

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