What is monolithic vs Microservices?

A monolithic application is simply deployed on a set of identical servers behind a load balancer. In contrast, a microservice application typically consists of a large number of services . Each service will have multiple runtime instances. And each instance need to be configured, deployed, scaled, and monitored.

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What is an example of a microservice?

Most large scale web sites including Netflix, Amazon and eBay have evolved from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture. Netflix, which is a very popular video streaming service that’s responsible for up to 30% of Internet traffic, has a large scale, service-oriented architecture.

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