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The idea of distributed, componentized applications goes back a long way. Most notoriously, it emerged in the form of the SOA (service-oriented architecture) trend that peaked eight yeas ago. Now, ...

Until recently, businesses were run on monolithic applications developed as a single yet autonomous unit. A slight tweak to the monolithic application affects the whole process and slows it down. For ...

Developer empowerment is a key part of the microservices trend, says Nginx's Owen Garrett, who offers lessons learned from real world implementations The term “microservices” might be relatively new, ...