With the introduction of microservice architectures allowing development teams to make changes to production applications more frequently, developers no longer just need to release software on a quarterly basis.
With the move towards Continuous Delivery and DevOps, applications are now released weekly, daily, or even hourly with only one or a subset of those microservices being updated and released.
Organizations have found microservice architectures to be easier to manage and have moved away from building monolith applications. Microservice applications break a larger application into smaller manageable chunks. This allows application features to be released to customers on a more frequent basis, as the business does not have to redeploy the whole product each time they release. This means only a small microservice needs to be redeployed to deploy a feature. As the release process is more frequent and continuous, then it is better understood, normally...