Microservice or monolith

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Fast implementation of business ideas allows companies to increase customer loyalty and become more successful than competitors. To speed up the process of product development, microservices are implemented, and this turns out to be an effective solution. Rostislav Burtyl, project manager at iiii Tech (Forize), told RSpectr about the advantages of this approach, which has already proven itself in practice.

TWO APPROACHES

Microservices are a type of service-oriented software architecture that enables interaction between small, loosely coupled, and easily changeable modules that content writing service
are independent of each other.

A monolithic architecture is a single module that operates autonomously, independent of other applications.

For large businesses with a wide branch network and a huge number of routine operations, the optimal solution in most cases will be a microservice architecture

Let's take as an example any retail representative that has divisions not only in Russia, but also in the EAEU countries: Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan.



From my own experience, I know that a lot of time is spent on labeling. Every year it becomes mandatory for more and more goods, and not only in clothing retail, but also, for example, in the medical products segment.

Moreover, legislation on labeling not only differs in the countries where the retailer has representative offices, but also changes within a single country.

Therefore, he needs an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that can be quickly modified and at the same time continue to develop functionality.

Often, a business of this scale has more than one information system for optimizing work processes, but on average 10-15 or even more. This is a CRM for collecting a client base, one or more solutions for logistics and warehousing, document exchange with suppliers, clients, and much more.

The advantage of microservices in this case will be harmonious integration with the existing IT systems.

If there are many applications to integrate, it is more convenient to divide the integration interaction into different services of the system being developed.

MICROSERVICE BONUSES

Saving on hiring employees. Using microservices allows you to outsource some of the work. For example, when developing or developing an application on microservices, you can combine employees with different competencies and levels. This gives you more room to maneuver both in technology and in finding specialists.

In addition, this allows for more flexible cost management. For example, a Python developer of the middle level will cost significantly less than a Java developer of the same level. This way, costs are optimized, and the company gains flexibility in selecting personnel or contractors.

Testing speed. When using an approach that involves regular application development, microservices will benefit from the speed of releasing new features, as it will not need to be tested in its entirety every time.

There are no limitations in the technology stack when developing an application. Microservices can combine different technologies and programming languages. One service can be written in Java, and another in Python.