Differences Between Monolithic and Micro-Service Architectures

This is an article that describes Micro-Service and Monolith one over the other. And then you can easily find the best architecture which fits your requirement.

To start with, how about we characterize what we mean by “Monolith” and “Microservice”. The monolith in the sense A solid design is worked as one enormous framework and is normally one code-base. It is regularly sent at the same time, both front and end code together, paying little heed to what was changed. Microservices engineering anyway is the place where an application is worked as a set-up of little services, each with its own code-base. These services are built around specific capabilities and are usually independently deployable.

When To Start With A Monolith

Here are a few situations that show that you should begin your next task utilizing Monolithic Architecture:

• Your Team Is At Founding Stage: Your team is small, between 2–5 members, and is thus unable to tackle a broader and high-overhead microservices architecture.
• You’re Building An Unproven Product or Proof of Concept: Are you building an unproven product in the market? If it’s a new idea, it’s likely going to pivot and evolve, so a monolith is ideal to allow for rapid product iteration. The same applies to a proof of concept where your goal is just to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible, even if you end up throwing it away.
• You Have No Microservices Experience: If your team has no prior experience with microservices unless you can justify taking the risk of learning “on the fly” at such an early stage, it’s likely another sign you should stick to a monolith to start.

When To Start With Microservices

Here are a few situations that show that you should begin your next task utilizing Micro-Service Architecture:

• You Need Quick, Independent Service Delivery: Microservices allow for fast, independent delivery of individual parts within a larger, integrated system. Note, depending on your team size, it can take time to see service delivery gains versus starting with the monolith.
• A Piece of Your Platform Needs to Be Extremely Efficient: If your business is doing intensive processing of petabytes of log volume, you’ll likely want to build that service out in a very efficient language (i.e. C++) while your user dashboard may be built in Ruby on Rails.
• You Plan To Grow Your Team: Starting with microservices gets your team used to developing in separate small services from the beginning, and having teams separated by service boundaries makes it much easier to scale up your team when you need to without introducing exponential complexity.