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Software delivery & architecture · Core

Microservices

Also called: microservice architecture

ELI5

A system made of smaller separate services.

Used in conversation

“Microservices add operational complexity as well as flexibility.”

Definition

An architecture dividing a system into independently deployable services around defined responsibilities.

Here “Microservices” means: An architecture dividing a system into independently deployable services around defined responsibilities.

Pitch context

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