From the course: Kubernetes: Microservices (2018)

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Benefits of a microservices architecture

Benefits of a microservices architecture - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Kubernetes: Microservices (2018)

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Benefits of a microservices architecture

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- [Instructor] You may be skeptical about what you'll gain by going to a microservices architecture and the doors it opens to cloud and container technologies. Let's take a look at some of the most common benefits by using such an architecture. Ever been in a situation where you knew that a certain language was the right fit for the task at hand but couldn't implement that language because the rest of the system was written in something else? Breaking up the application into multiple subcomponents that interoperate with each other but run independently buys you technical independence. You're allowed to use different languages or even different databases behind the scenes for different microservices in the application. That way, you're picking the right language for the job and aren't pigeonholed into using a suboptimal language just because the rest of the application is written in it. When it comes to scaling, there's always some part of an application that is invoked by a lot of…

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