Microservices vs Monolith

Summary

A monolith is one deployable application containing all your logic; microservices split functionality into independently deployable services — each with real trade-offs in complexity, team autonomy, and operational overhead.

• 1List 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of microservices versus a monolith.
• 2Understand most successful products start as a monolith and split out services only when there's a real reason to.
• 3Learn what problems microservices solve that a well-organized monolith often can't — independent scaling, independent deploys, team autonomy.