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What is a Microservice?

Progress

A microservice is a service that can be deployed independently, often in support of just a single step in a business process or the entirety of one simple business process. Microservices Are a Critical Component of a Serverless Architecture. Microservices have been around for a lot longer than serverless architecture.

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6 trends fueling the rise of self-service IT

CIO

Today, self-service IT solutions, both purchased and homegrown, target a wide range of activities, from traditional end-user support, to spinning up company-sanctioned cloud instances for new projects and experiments, to data access and analysis on tap.

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