In Chapter 4, Evolution toward Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications, we discussed the problems with monolithic applications and how architectures evolved toward microservices. However, microservices have their own sets of challenges:
- Organizations adopting microservice architectures also need to make challenging decisions around the consistency of microservices without affecting the innovation capabilities of the microservice teams.
- Smaller applications mean more builds, releases, and deployments. This is usually addressed using more automation.
- Microservice architectures are built based on a large number of smaller, fine-grained services. There are challenges associated with managing configuration and availability of these services.
- Debugging issues becomes more difficult because of the distributed nature of applications.
To reap maximum benefits from microservice architectures, microservices should be Cloud-Native--easily deployable on the Cloud. In Chapter 4...