Microservice Architecture
The Basis for Flexible Software
Digitalisation is forcing companies to react flexibly to changing market requirements and shorten their time-to-market. Large, monolithic software systems can often no longer cope with this flexibility. Microservice architecture maps business functions in independent modules to avoid inflexible monolithic design. This approach not only enhances scalability but also simplifies maintenance and continuous development.
Five Advantages for Agile and Efficient Software Development
The use of microservice architecture simplifies the development, operation and maintenance of a software application.
The benefits of microservices can be divided into five areas:
Implementing Technical Requirements in a More Agile Way
Technical decisions can be made for each microservice within an application, as each microservice stands for itself with its functionality. Requirements for a function can be implemented optimally on a small scale.
Facilitated Quality Assurance
Microservice architectures offer simplified quality assurance, as each microservice is tested individually. Central, lengthy tests lasting weeks or months are therefore a thing of the past. This is especially true if all tests for a microservice can be executed automatically.
Efficient Operation of Microservices
An application with a microservice architecture can respond optimally to availability requirements, as microservices usually function in cluster operation or are operated in a cloud platform. Microservice applications are therefore also individually scalable.
Fast Implementation
When implementing microservices, the development team benefits from the modularity. Small specialist teams can take care of a service holistically, build up expertise and operate it optimally. The microservice modules are usually provided via a continuous integration system. Due to the strict separation via interfaces, each microservice can be implemented with its own technology stack. There is no restriction to Java, C# or similar.
Automated Rollout of Applications
The rollout of a microservice application is usually automated using continuous delivery pipelines right through to production. The availability of the entire application is thus always maintained, even if a sub-functionality is temporarily unavailable.
doubleSlash: Your Partner for Microservice Architectures
By dividing complex IT systems into small, scalable services, we enable you to react quickly and agilely to the requirements of digitalization. These microservice architectures not only promote the flexibility of your IT landscape, but also its maintainability and expandability. This allows you to implement new functions efficiently, optimize existing processes and remain future-proof - even in a dynamic market environment.
Our Services
- Creation and testing of concepts for microservice architectures
- Test automation for microservices (module, load and integration tests)
- Software architecture support for the setup of microservices
- Implementation of microservices and their deployment in the cloud (e.g. Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, ...), including release management
- 3rd level support, incident and problem management in the ITIL process
Best Practises - Our Recommendations
- Form small, meaningful units
The communication of the individual services should be based on HTTPS or a queueing system such as Kafka or ActiveMQ
The choice of technology should be based on the individual requirements, according to the motto: Which technology fits the requirement?
We help you react flexibly to your requirements with microservices.
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