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Introduction to microservices

Introduction to microservices

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Introduction to microservices

- [Instructor] You may have heard about this term, microservices. So in this video we'll explore exactly what it is and when using this architectural approach with your projects makes more sense. Again, if you're familiar with the concept, feel free to skip this video. Microservices, in its simplest form, is an architectural approach where we decouple each piece of our application into their own local or cloud applications. So when you deploy your application you can even go further by exploring deploying it to different types of services based on the requirements of this microservice. So let's take a look at an example here. If you add a vital record online store, you'd have these different services in your application. So you'd have a user service, where you have all the users of your application. A vinyl record service, where all your vinyl products and their corresponding data is hosted. A service that holds all the functions related to purchasing, shipping, and inventory keeping.…

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