There are three types of companies in software architecture: those that are content with their monolith applications, those that plan to switch to microservices, and those that already use microservices in production. Each company has its reasons for choosing a particular architecture, but using microservices comes with its own set of challenges. For instance, when you decide to break down a monolith application into services, you need to figure out how to manage communication between the services.
In part 1, we will first look at the big picture of an e-commerce application, and then delve into microservices architecture and its critical requirements, such as fault tolerance, security, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), public access, and scaling, among others. Proper communication patterns between microservices are essential, and we will cover this topic as well.
We will also introduce gRPC and show how it fits into a microservices environment for service-to-service communication. You will become familiar with gRPC and see how it prioritizes security and performance to give you a seamless experience.