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Advantages of Microservices

• Microservices are self-contained, independent deployment module.
• The cost of scaling is comparatively less than the monolithic architecture.
• Microservices are independently manageable services. It can enable more and more services as the need arises. It minimizes the impact on existing service.
• It is possible to change or upgrade each service individually rather than upgrading in the entire application.
• Microservices allows us to develop an application which is organic (an application which latterly upgrades by adding more functions or modules) in nature.
• It enables event streaming technology to enable easy integration in comparison to heavyweight interposes communication.
• Microservices follows the single responsibility principle.
• The demanding service can be deployed on multiple servers to enhance performance.
• Less dependency and easy to test.
• Dynamic scaling.
• Faster release cycle.

Disadvantages of Microservices

• Microservices has all the associated complexities of the distributed system.
• There is a higher chance of failure during communication between different services.
• Difficult to manage a large number of services.
• The developer needs to solve the problem, such as network latency and load balancing.
• Complex testing over a distributed environment.

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