Entendendo vantagens e desvantagens em aplicações monolíticas versus o uso de micro-serviços

Abstract

Microservices architecture emerged as an alternative to monolith architecture. With monoliths, applications are developed in entire blocks that communicate internally, manage their data usually in a single database, and each new feature demands the deployment of the application as a whole. On the other hand, microservices splits the application into smaller blocks with unique responsibilities, using lightweight communication mechanisms and managing their own data. This new architecture has several advantages, but it also has some disadvantages. Based on an understanding of these advantages and disadvantages, the main goal of this research is to identify how the two architectures have been used in professional practice and how academia can help to understand the problems associated with the microservice architecture and propose solutions to them. The aim of this work is to generate a guide of recommendations to help understand when one architecture may be more appropriate than the other. To achieve this goal, a multivocal literature review and a survey of experts were carried out