Modern architecture
for business agility
The proliferation of fast, affordable computing has allowed
companies of all sizes to create internal efficiencies and reach
more customers through digital products. However, the ubiquity
of tools, multiple paths to market, and changing consumer
preferences mean businesses must innovate faster than ever to
remain competitive. Across industries, from agriculture to banking
to telecommunications, rapid innovation is digital at its core.
The way digital products have been traditionally built just isn't
fast enough to enable the innovation that's needed to win in
the market.
New architectural patterns
New architectural patterns like microservices allow organizations
to accelerate the pace of innovation. Modern applications built
with microservices architectures enable innovation by distributing
the effort and investment over time and across smaller teams,
increasing the speed of testing and delivering changes to the
market. They allow fine-grained resource optimization and enable
teams to rapidly scale both in how they build products and how
they run them.
What defines a microservices architecture?
Specialized
Each service is designed for a set of capabilities and focuses on
solving a specific problem. If developers contribute more code to
a service over time and the service becomes complex, it can be
broken into smaller services.
Distributed
A microservices architecture breaks your application from a single
process into multiple components that work together to deliver
value. Any communication between individual components
happens via well-defined, loosely coupled APIs ,or through events
and messaging.
Autonomous
Each component service in a microservices architecture can be
developed, deployed, operated, and scaled without affecting the
functioning of other services. Services do not need to share any
of their code or implementation with other services. They act as
self contained black boxes.
Modern Applications: Microservices architectures
A monolithic architecture may work well today,
but challenges often arise as your business grows.
Microservices help you address common challenges like
scaling up and deploying new features quickly.
Microservices
Monolith
Breaking a monolith
Breaking a monolith can be intimidating. Give your team
some practice by inviting them to complete an AWS project
that will walk them through the process of breaking a
monolith into microservices. Try the tutorial >>
