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If you want to get the most out of cloud-native applications, you need to think very differently about how you build your code. Scaling depends on stateless microservices, using APIs for interservice ...

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Big brands like Amazon and Netflix are embracing microservice architecture, but what is it, and how does it fit into application and software development? The software products we use every day for ...

The idea that big things may be comprised of thoughtful combinations of lots of small things, may be the least new technological innovation since the wheel. But microservices architecture for data ...