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Microservices Architecture

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  • Class
Resource
  • urn:ngm:class:microservices-architecture
Domain
  • distributed-systems
Status
  • stable
Maturity
  • draft
Quality
  • 0.7
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Legacy term id
  • MV-9967
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  • urn:visionflow:page:bd21afd6b47499c69ed60333042df3f05f48cc7c6d12b61d37d4345002d5aadf
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A distributed software architecture pattern that decomposes applications into independent, loosely coupled services communicating via APIs, enabling high concurrency, scalability, and resilience through containerisation technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

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Content

Architecture Overview

Core Principles

  • Service independence

  • Loose coupling

  • API communication

  • Distributed deployment

  • Fault isolation

    Industry Examples

  • Netflix: 700+ microservices

  • Google: Kubernetes pioneer

  • Amazon: Service-oriented

  • Spotify: Squad model

  • Uber: Domain services

    Kubernetes Dominance

  • Container orchestration

  • Service discovery

  • Load balancing

  • Automated scaling

  • Rolling updates

    Event-Driven Architecture

  • Asynchronous communication

  • Decoupled services

  • Real-time response

  • Event streaming

  • Message queues

    Docker Containerisation

  • Consistent environments

  • Dependency packaging

  • Isolated execution

  • DevOps integration

  • Portable deployment

    Cloud Integration

    AWS Services

  • Elastic Container Service

  • AWS Lambda

  • API Gateway

  • Step Functions

  • Fargate

    Platform Features

  • Auto-scaling

  • Load balancing

  • Service mesh

  • Monitoring

  • Logging

    Key Challenges

    Complexity Management

  • Service tracking

  • Deployment coordination

  • Debugging difficulty

  • Troubleshooting

  • Network latency

    Data Consistency

  • Distributed data

  • Transaction management

  • Event sourcing

  • CQRS patterns

  • Saga patterns

    Best Practices

    Service Design

  • Single responsibility

  • Domain-driven design

  • API contracts

  • Version management

  • Documentation

    Data Management

  • Database per service

  • Event sourcing

  • Data replication

  • Caching strategies

  • Backup procedures

    Communication

  • REST APIs

  • gRPC protocols

  • Message brokers

  • Service mesh

  • API gateways

    Deployment Strategies

    Container Orchestration

  • Kubernetes clusters

  • Docker Swarm

  • Service mesh (Istio)

  • Helm charts

  • GitOps workflows

    CI/CD Integration

  • Automated testing

  • Continuous deployment

  • Blue-green releases

  • Canary deployments

  • Rollback capability

    Monitoring and Observability

    Tools

  • Prometheus metrics

  • Grafana dashboards

  • Jaeger tracing

  • ELK stack

  • Datadog

    Health Checks

  • Liveness probes

  • Readiness probes

  • Circuit breakers

  • Retry policies

  • Fallback handlers

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