What Are Microservices Really All About? (And When Not To Use It)

Checkout our bestselling System Design Interview books:

ABOUT US:
Covering topics and trends in large-scale system design, from the authors of the best-selling System Design Interview series.

[CloudAZ]

The best point u spoke about was for startups microservices can be expensive but if you start with building each function with well defined interface it will be easy to migrate to microservices easily.. that totally makes sense :)

[khushaltrivedi]

Generally small and mid size app can be easily developed with monolith with great scale sometime we over engineer things for fashion like microservices

[Brlesskoin]

I've watched numerous videos in an attempt to comprehend this architecture, and I've finally come across the absolute best one. Thank you so much for sharing it; it's truly amazing!

[ferlezcano]

I've seen many of your videos and this one made me subscribe to your channel... Extremely clear explanation of such a complex topic. Keep up!

[buddinghero]

Thank you for making this video! It’s incredibly clear and concise and I feel it will help my team and my work! Please please keep up the great work, I’ve really appreciated the two videos I’ve stumbled across of yours and I’ll be watching more of your content over the coming days/weeks/months! Brilliant content, you should be proud! ☺️☺️

[Tony-dprl]

This is a great video, the only thing I would have added is that microservices are most applicable when your teams, and the business, are structured in a way that needs separate development and release timelines. If that isn't the case, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages 9/10 times, as large services perform better, are easier to develop and secure, and cost less .

[vladl-uspf]

what a great explanations and phenomenal graphics - not distracting, clear, direct! gold!

[sandybeaches]

Your videos are excellent!! Can you do one like this on grpc vs REST APIs?

[TheMediterano]

Independent deployability of microservices is probably their biggest advantage because it leads large organizations to faster time-to-market while limiting the blast radius of new deployments. Besides, independent scalability of microservices over monoliths is a very crucial advantage which helps them adapt easily to the increasing workload.

[steve]

Thank you for making these great videos. They've helped me a lot. You're a great artist and teacher. I look forward to all your media and information.

[wangfred]

I am preparing interview now, this is perfect to sum up the concept! Two thumbs up! Subscribed!

[alamelu]

As usual, awsome presentation - Wish for more!

[stefankyriacou]

This is literally the best advice around microservices i've heard!

[DarknessGudeMe]

Great video! Would the additional communication overhead between more micro-services a downside of this architecture?

[woooz]

Great video and clear explanation! Could you make a video on the comparison of spring cloud and kubernetes?

[nove]

This was well put. Short and very helpful.

[vadebyte]

Great video and very clear explanation!
I would like to suggest a video with more detailed explanations about DDD and how to scale SQL and non-SQL databases.

Please, what set of tools do you use to build your presentations / videos?

[realrobertpopa]

Really high quality material, thanks for sharing Alex! 👏

[imdad]

This was a wonderful tutorial of micro services vs monolithic architectures! Thank you for paving the way!

[unapologeticsanatani]

Question, if any one can answer :

Where does the Integration Layer (Eg. connecting to some Core Banking), fit in ? The explaination suits well for previously done web applications and breaking them into MS. How about cases like IIB / Mule / WSO2 Micro Integrators etc, where services are built for transformations etc. Do they also fit-in to this description ?

Appreciated !