Do you need microservices architecture?

Over the last few years there has been lot of attention on microservices. After the initial "hype" we saw that what problems it solves and what it can not. I have tried to cover what are microservices and where it can be useful and where it is not. I want to share the guidelines which can be used to choose between a monolith and microservices.

I feel that one must answer the below questions before they choose a microservices architecture and it will be beneficial to you if the answer to these questions are "YES".

1. Does your services represents different business cases/domains..?

2. Does the services needs to be deployed and managed independently..?

3. Does different parts of the application has different scaling/Technology needs..?

A modular monolith can be transformed to a set of microservices in case the need arises. So, we should start with monolith when we are not sure about the future.

Do you need microservices architecture? from Manu Pk

I have spoken couple of times about the microdervices. In April 2016, I spoke at the Bangalore Software Architects Meetup on the topic "Do you need microservices architecture?". Later in 2017 April there was a brief introductory talk titled, Introduction to Microservices at the Microservices and Serverless event. I hope this post helps to complement the slides.

Introduction to Microservices from Manu Pk