What are microservices?

- A website may look like a single, cohesive application, but in reality it's more like a bunch of modules presented in a grid, each of which performs a specific function. A module can go beyond serving basic information. It can offer tech support through chat, manage your shopping cart, or pretty much any other function. It's kind of like your house. Throughout your house you have different electrical appliances to serve different functions. A lamp, a blowdryer, a kettle and so on. Now, these appliances are all powered through the electrical wiring in the house. On a website, we can isolate each module in a similar way by turning them into microservices. Each microservice module is functionally separate, and communicates with the other modules through a well documented API, just like each of these appliances are functionally separate, but are all powered through a common API, the electrical wiring. And just like the appliances, each of these microservices on a website can be…