Blog Activity: Microservices

The first time I heard the term Microservice was in this reading, this term is in reference for an architectural that structures applications as a bundle or in other words the application is develop as a small service, each one runs its own process (but it still considered one) and run with mechanisms that does not waste too much resources, or runs over an API.

I consider that this kind of applications are an excellent tool for business where they look for an application that is useful for their role (and independent so it can deploy its own service) and for the price and investment they can have for, and not only for the price, it allows to stack of technology (so in the future they can grow also put a more complex structure for their services and applications) and with this deploy their technologies on their systems.

Now, this helps to accomplish objectives for the company, and to have more opportunities to choose what style of structure we want, Microservice or monolithic. Monolithic is the most common architecture because we have 3 components, the user interface, the database and the server application.

We can see that the architecture has change or evolved, in other words it evolved because all the elements from the application, instead of standalone services we get the fusion of the 3 so it can work without needing another element or something extra.

For this I look for a lot of benefits like the independence that it could have instead of the monolithic one, requiring separate equipment for each one apart that its cost is higher, you need more specialist to take care of every section.

Applications from companies from the actual time like Netflix, Amazon or even the music platform Spotify have a new way to provide their services to the customer, they try to simplify everything also because the large amount of information and data that is carried over their applications is completely huge they need to use the Microservice one to provide service to a big amount of customers, now if they have the monolithic, what we could say, let's give an example if one of the elements is under maintenance or even has an issue and needs to be repaired (but at that moment the service are offline) you leave millions or even billions of connections without service that will impact your money and also for that reason many customer will leave your platform, we do not want that, so we opt for Micro so we can avoid that.

Before I finish these blog entry, I would like to give a small mention to the man that change the way of thinking for the universe also for black holes theories, for something that we are not able to describe, but he dedicated his life to understand and discover what is beyond there. Stephen Hawking was an incredible human and a memorable scientist from the 20th century. RIP Stephen Hawking.

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet" - Professor Stephen Hawking
1942-2018 https://t.co/h8uWznhEpb pic.twitter.com/RVeQx2BTxP

— Cambridge University (@Cambridge_Uni) March 14, 2018

Because not only he dedicated to science, he also show his human side on the Big Bang theory.

Oh, almost forgot one more thing Happy Pi day!