When to use microservice architecture

One of the challenges related to microservice architecture is deciding when to use it. The following scenarios are examples of when it is a good idea to start using microservice architecture in your project:

• New project development: Microservice architecture is more suitable when developing the first version of an application. You can plan your project and its associated modules from an initial level, whereas it can be challenging to convert an old or legacy project into a microservice-based application.
• Separating concerns in the business application: This architecture provides a better level of separation of concerns as the Spring framework provides separation of concerns at the level of the application’s components.
• Development of a cloud-native application: This architecture provides cloud-native patterns and supports distributed application development. We can create numerous independent services which can be deployed to a different platform on a different network, as can be done in the cloud.
• Quick development of independent service delivery: Microservice architecture allows us to develop a business application quickly by dividing it into the independent delivery of individual parts within a larger, integrated system.
• Efficient modules: In a business application, there are some modules that are very important for a business, and these modules must be developed in extremely efficient ways. Microservice architecture allows you to use better technologies for these modules to improve their efficiency.
• Alongside a fast-growing product or team: If you start with microservice architecture, it provides your team with the flexibility to develop a product quickly. It also provides scalability to your application from the beginning.

Essentially, microservice-based application development better follows an agile software development process, because different, small teams work on separate modules of the application. The teams are therefore able to release services with continuous delivery. Now, let's move on to another type of software application architecture.