Microservices
Quick Definition
Architecture of loosely coupled independently deployable services
Full Definition
An architecture of loosely coupled independently deployable services communicating via APIs.
Examples
API gateways, service discovery, distributed systems
Related Terms
api-gateway
service-mesh
More DevOps Terms
Prometheus
Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for metrics
Docker
Platform for running applications in lightweight containers
Observability
Understanding system state from external outputs
Tracing
Tracking requests across distributed systems
Secret Management
Securely storing and managing sensitive credentials
Kubernetes
Open-source platform for automating container management