Azure has created quite the hype. What is it about and how to use it? Let’s enlighten you.

What is Azure?

Azure is a public cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It contains many different services that can be helpful to help grow your organization. It can be used for building, testing, and managing applications.

What are Microservices?

Microservices is an architectural way of building applications that are easily adaptable to change. They are made up of small modules that are connected to other modules.

The main purpose of microservices is to make it easier for developers to develop and change their applications. If developers want to implement a service in an application, they do not need to rebuild the application. Instead, they can simply add it using microservices as it allows services to be added independently.

Benefits of Microservices

Easier to manage applications

As applications are split into different modules and are connected simply with each other, it is very easy to manage it. Adding new services or features to your applications has never been easier as it does not require you to rebuild the whole application to add something new even if they don’t share the same technology stack, libraries, or frameworks. You do not need to search for hours and hours through the code to find where the problem is as each microservice itself is a different chunk or set of code. If a small problem occurs in your microservice, it would not affect the whole system as microservices are independent of each other. It is easier to update your service with new and improved functions.

Productivity

Microservices help you become more productive and eliminate the unnecessary factors which will make you less productive. This makes the development process for developers faster and more manageable. Microservice’s architectural structure allows different teams to work on different parts of the application simultaneously which results in a faster and more efficient development process.

Flexibility

Microservice can be written and used in different technologies. This makes sure that your creativity is not limited to one technology only. You can use any technology which can be beneficial for the service you are providing. Code can be written in different languages in different microservice components and they would not affect each other as microservice is independent. This also helps ensure that if any new and advanced technology is invented, your whole system does not need to be rebuilt from scratch.

Simplicity

Microservices are very easy and simple to understand. This helps out developers who are new to this concept. They will adapt to it easily and help their organization grow using microservices. Developers are not bombarded with a mix of things as everything in microservices are organized and set up properly so that they can be managed easily.