TECH: Cloud Computing...AKA "Microservices"?

[dewline]

Am I right to link the concepts of "microservices" and "cloud computing" in my own mind after watching this video?

Comments

[jsburbidge]

Not necessarily. A standard microservices architecture takes large applications apart and replaces common functionality by RPC calls to independent small services, frequently using a bus architecture. It might all be present on the same physical box.

Some services could be hosted on other machines ("distributed computing"), or outside the local network on the "cloud". However, that has the drawback of slowing down the calls used by microservices.

[dewline]

Okay, thanks for that clarification.