Understanding the challenges of the microservice architecture
The microservice architecture offers many advantages such as agility, availability, and efficiency, to name a few. These advantages come with a set of challenges that need to be handled properly to gain the maximum output from the microservice architecture. Most of these challenges are related to the technical aspect of the solution, while there are also a few challenges related to organizational and team structure. Let's look at these challenges and understand what they are:
- Identifying the service boundaries
- Inter-service communication
- Securing services
- Monitoring services
- Organizational structures
Let's discuss each challenge in detail so that we can correlate these points when designing the solution with NATS.
Identifying the service boundaries
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