Microservices architecture design

We build microservices using Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, NodeJS. Java is usually the best choice for building microservices because of its annotation syntax.

It depends on the programming language you chose to build a microservices application. In the majority of cases Java is used, that's why we recommend to use it with Spring Boot framework.

DevOps methodology as well as microservices are the most popular topics to discuss in the modern IT community. They both have a main mutual goal to have a great agilitiy within an organization, decrease time-to-market delivery and make the development process smooth.

While DevOps practices are focused on automation of the release deployment (i.e. by creating CI/CD pipelines), microservices-based applications help with achieving results thanks to it scalability, high availiability, deployability and flexibility.

That's why thank to microservices-based applications it became easier to adopt cloud, containers, serverless and other DevOps amenities.

No! Flexibility is a crucial criteria for any growing application.

Usually developers apply a tailor-made solutions on application decomposition, but generally this process includes the following stages:

Business capabilities decomposition
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Decomposition of the services particular for the certain actions (shipping service, catalogue etc.)
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Another challenge is deciding how to partition the system into microservices. This is very much an art, but there are a number of strategies that can help:

• Decompose by business capability and define services corresponding to business capabilities.
• Decompose by domain-driven design subdomain.
• Decompose by verb or use case and define services that are responsible for particular actions. e.g. a Shipping Service that's responsible for shipping complete orders.
• Decompose by by nouns or resources by defining a service that is responsible for all operations on entities/resources of a given type. e.g. an Account Service that is responsible for managing user accounts.