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Published inJun 2017
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Gaurav Aroraa
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Gaurav Aroraa has done M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, life time member of Computer Society of India (CSI), certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav serves as a mentor at IndiaMentor, open source developer, contributor to TechNet Wiki co-founder of Innatus Curo Software LLC. In 19+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his twitter handle @g_arora
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Lalit Kale is a technical architect and consultant with more than 12 years of industry experience. Lalit has helped clients achieve tangible business outcomes through the implementation of best practices in software development. He is a practitioner of TDD and DDD, and a big believer in agile and lean methodologies. He has worked with several organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, in making their systems successful, be it in-house or mission critical, with clients in the USA, the UK, Germany, Ireland, and India. His current interests include container technologies and machine learning using Python. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering (IT).
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Manish Kanwar completed his masters of science in computer applications from MD University, India, and is a cofounder of Innatus Curo Software LLC, with a presence in India. He has been working in the IT industry across domains for the last 17 years. He started exploring .NET right from the first release and has been glued to it ever since. His range of experience includes global wealth management (financial service industry, USA), life insurance (insurance industry, USA), and document management system (DMS), ECMS, India. Manish does his bit for the community by helping young professionals through the IndiaMentor platform.
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Architectures before microservices


Microservices were never designed from the ground up to be in the present form. Instead, there has been a gradual transition from other forms of prevalent architecture styles to microservices. Prior to microservices, we had the monolithic architecture and service-oriented architecture that reigned over the world of enterprise development.

Let's delve into these two before doing a quick recap of microservices and their various attributes and advantages.

The monolithic architecture

The monolithic architecture has been around for quite some time and it results in self-contained software with a single .NET assembly. It consists of the following components:

  • User interface
  • Business logic
  • Database access

The cost paid for being self-contained was that all the components were interconnected and interdependent. A minor change in any module had the capability to impact the entire piece of software. With all the components so tightly coupled in this manner, it made testing...

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Published in: Jun 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887833

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Gaurav Aroraa

Gaurav Aroraa has done M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, life time member of Computer Society of India (CSI), certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav serves as a mentor at IndiaMentor, open source developer, contributor to TechNet Wiki co-founder of Innatus Curo Software LLC. In 19+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his twitter handle @g_arora
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Lalit Kale

Lalit Kale is a technical architect and consultant with more than 12 years of industry experience. Lalit has helped clients achieve tangible business outcomes through the implementation of best practices in software development. He is a practitioner of TDD and DDD, and a big believer in agile and lean methodologies. He has worked with several organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, in making their systems successful, be it in-house or mission critical, with clients in the USA, the UK, Germany, Ireland, and India. His current interests include container technologies and machine learning using Python. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering (IT).
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Manish Kanwar

Manish Kanwar completed his masters of science in computer applications from MD University, India, and is a cofounder of Innatus Curo Software LLC, with a presence in India. He has been working in the IT industry across domains for the last 17 years. He started exploring .NET right from the first release and has been glued to it ever since. His range of experience includes global wealth management (financial service industry, USA), life insurance (insurance industry, USA), and document management system (DMS), ECMS, India. Manish does his bit for the community by helping young professionals through the IndiaMentor platform.
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