Microservices Explained and their Pros & Cons

Microservices technology is a new pattern of software engineering that has been popularized recently. In this video, we will explain what microservices are, their pros and cons by example.

A lot of companies have moved in early 2010 such as Twitter and Netflix to the microservices architecture. In order to explain what microservices are, we need to explain how a traditional classical application looks like

Microservices Pros:
Polyglot architecture
Easy scaling for microservices that needs scaling.
Better Team management, each microservice is a team
Easier to innovate certain areas.
Each microservice can pick their own database
Scale busy services instead of the entire system

Microservices Cons:
Very complicated to implement, network call, service discovery
Very Difficult to debug
Hard to find where the fault is
Network calls fail adds complexity.



Table of Content
0:00 Intro
01:30 Traditional Services Explained:
04:00 Microservices Example
08:00 Microservices Pros
12:20 Microservices Cons


Microservices technology is a new pattern of software engineering that has been popularized recently. In this video, we will explain what microservices are, their pros and cons by example.


Microservices Pros:
Polyglot architecture
Easy scaling for microservices that needs scaling.
Better Team management, each microservice is a team
Easier to innovate certain areas.
Each microservice can pick their own database
Scale busy services instead of the entire system


Microservices Cons:
Very complicated to implement, network call, service discovery
Very Difficult to debug
Hard to find where the fault is
Network calls fail adds complexity.

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Hussein