Microservices

Doing local development on a bunch of interconnected services I often want to start multiple long running server processes.

This is the basic script I use for that.

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Ever since diving into the software development world I was troubled by a duality:

On the one hand I have built and operated many services described as monolithic with relative ease, on the other hand I’m always told I, and others, should build microservices because they are better in a variety of ways.

With this post I’m going to compare both software architectures by looking at the key benefits often associated with microservices and additional considerations I think are important.

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