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Microservice concepts
From the course: Microservices: Security
Microservice concepts
- [Instructor] Microservice Architectures have introduced a fundamental shift that changes how developers build, operate, and secure technical systems. Before microservices many systems were built using a three tier architecture that consisted of a presentation layer that runs in the browser, a logic tier that ran server side and a database tier where information was stored. In this architecture the logic tier contains a set of services that work together to provide the systems business capabilities and data. In a hypothetical e-commerce system this might include services for business functions like the product catalog, inventory, pricing, shopping cart, and delivery. In a monolith we develop, package and deploy these business services as a single executable, which allows them to communicate in process to complete business functions. On the contrary microservice architectures separate the services in a systems…