Microservices.

also: microservice · microservice architecture

An architecture of small services, each owning one business capability and its data, deployed and scaled independently.

the two-minute refresher

A monolith is simple to build, test and deploy, with easy ACID transactions, but scales and fails as one unit.
Microservices scale, deploy and fail independently, and teams own their service end to end.
The price: network calls between services, harder debugging and no cross-service transactions.
That price is why later weeks need timeouts, circuit breakers, sagas and tracing.

also: microservice · microservice architecture

An architecture of small services, each owning one business capability and its data, deployed and scaled independently.

A monolith is simple to build, test and deploy, with easy ACID transactions, but scales and fails as one unit.
Microservices scale, deploy and fail independently, and teams own their service end to end.
The price: network calls between services, harder debugging and no cross-service transactions.
That price is why later weeks need timeouts, circuit breakers, sagas and tracing.