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Benefits of Microservices Architecture for Software Development

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From Netflix to Amazon, Twitter, and many software giants, everyone has started adopting the all-new architectural pattern for software development — microservices. Microservices is an architectural pattern for software development that is a collection of small autonomous units, built around business units.

We all have used monolith architecture. Let’s analyze what does monolith architecture does and how microservices are different from it. And how does microservices benefit us in increasing ROI and optimizing time spent and efforts?

What does monolithic architecture do?


Monolithic architecture follows the strong pattern of building components as a whole and developing modules together for an application. It mainly has three segments in operation: a database, client-side user interface and the server-side. Such architectural style keeps the component of an application busy and interdependent with each other.

Due to the inter dependability of each other, these components require great efforts to change or update the code. The developers will be required to change all the components instead of a single one, to complete the intended change, which is again the consumption of time and increase in efforts.

So how do you solve this problem? Microservices architecture is the solution. Let’s have a glimpse of the benefits that microservices has brought to the software development life cycle.

Simple. Easier. Smart


Microservices are simpler because they keep business domains apart and organized. For instance, organizing stuff in a house is more difficult than it is for a room. It is always easy to keep rooms tidy and organized than a big house. Microservices are those rooms that developers can put their code in and organize whenever they want.

Testing in microservices architecture is comparatively easy. Developers will not have look in an entire application for a single bug, but can easily find within the module and detect the effective area. Also, there is not the same database for all to fetch the data. Each microservice is either connected to the microservice with the same database or with its replica. This results in high agility and scalability of the software even with high user engagement.

Adding agility


What is a critical aspect of software development nowadays? More deliverables in less time? Software quality and transparent work environment. All this comes in one container called agile.

Microservices backs the agility in more ways by breaking the features and functionalities in smaller parts and extracting the relevancy. For instance, monolith architecture fails to extract unnecessary parts while doing the changes into an application.

Moreover, microservices make continuous deployment possible within a single pipeline and with smaller components. For example, you don’t have to worry about the user module when you do changes in the vendor module.

Faster improvements, smaller components, and continuous delivery & deployment are possible with microservices. Hence, holding the best part of an agile environment.

Super efficient


How can you be more efficient at your workplace? Of course, by optimizing the efforts required for a task. In software development, efficiency is when you build software with less rework and minimal bugs.

Microservices eliminates the idea of resolving bugs with each deploy and do the regression testing. Since it allows development in smaller components, there would be fewer bugs and fewer rework efforts. It saves more than 50% of the time than the conventional technique.

Microservices isolate the complexity and insist on simplicity in place. It has a lot of good practices to adopt such as encapsulation. The services are smaller so they are easy to maintain and hence, are not brainer for the development team.

Monolith vs Microservice


Since the architecture pattern is to execute divide and rule principle, it works in smaller components of code. The services are independent, flexible and robust since the operability of them is quite easy.
Monolith architecture doesn’t allow the developers to change the code once deployed. Microservices are way too flexible than the monolith since altering the code is super easy. It makes an easy to operate infrastructure because of the parallel operability of code.

Also, there’s a reason to choose microservice over monolith architecture is its scalable nature. We can use microservices for scalable applications as the components are not interconnected and can operate separately, that is being an advantageous part for the applications where user engagement is voluminous.

Autonomous & Cross-functional


Microservices allow developers to be autonomous and cross-functional. It allows developers to use the respective technology stack and decouple the services. The microservices environment is highly adaptable to a combination of different technologies and components in one frame.

With this, organizations can broaden their search for hiring talents from different backgrounds. This again, adds accountable factors for an organization’s ROI and development.

Microservices — Today’s need


Microservices are referred to as today’s need since it has everything that we need to build apps that can cater to the demands of modern users. The scalable applications of today’s world sought after the need for a framework that is capable of processing the data in real-time. Microservices has a publish-subscribe framework to perform real-time data processing and instant delivering.

Also, microservices can be integrated with the continuous integration pipeline to streamline the process of SDLC phases that gives quick feedback to developers. Moreover, there is no such limitation for using a single technology. You can select a language you are comfortable in for different services along with the respective data storage for functions.

More about productivity


Agile is all about productivity and microservices tops in that. It decouples the application into smaller components so that the developers are informed about the small changes. Every code snippet is clear to understand. Even the novice developer can understand the flow and start working immediately.

Hence, it adds up a lot into productivity and speeds up the process with quality outcomes. Microservices improve overall software quality. Also, it omits any dependency on the developers for further development. Anyone can test the services while others are still working on the remaining modules. No one has to wait for the developer to perform the task so that they can initiate the next.

Conclusion


If you too are the one looking for modernizing your organization culture; you can adopt microservices. Microservices architectural pattern is built to keep services loosely coupled and well-maintained. If you are browsing for an option to deploy the services independently with a small team, choose microservices.
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