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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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4 Strategies for Incrementally Migrating from VMs to Kubernetes using an API Gateway

Daniel Bryant

Strategy 1: Deploy a multi-platform service discovery system During a migration to cloud and containers it is common to see a combination of existing applications being decomposed into services and new systems being designed using the microservices architecture style.