Why Microservices Need a Smarter Database Architecture

Traditionally, businesses have tried to bring all their data together to create a single source of truth: one place to find all the data about customers, products, purchases, prices, discounts, and areas of the business that are more profitable. These databases grew into huge monoliths that were slow to change, presented significant operational challenges, and could not keep up with business demands. The database became the innovation bottleneck instead of being the innovation enabler.Microservices emerged as a key application architecture over 10 years ago. This architecture pattern decouples functionality, allowing parallel teams to work independently, and enables scaling capacity up and down by deploying fleets of microservices.However, when microservices are applied to the data layer, many organizations fall into one of two traps. In some cases, microservices are all deployed against a single monolithic database, which keeps the...