Microservices
An architectural style where an application is built as a set of small, independently deployable services that communicate over APIs.
What Are Microservices?
Microservices are an architectural approach in which a single application is composed of many small, independent services, each owning one capability (payments, search, notifications) and communicating over well-defined APIs or messaging. Each service can be developed, deployed, and scaled on its own.
The trade-off is flexibility for operational complexity: microservices let teams work and release independently and scale hot paths in isolation, but they add distributed-systems concerns — service discovery, network reliability, data consistency, and observability. They pay off most for large systems and large teams; smaller products are often better served by a well-structured monolith.
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