Over the last couple years, companies like Uber, Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter have publicly declared that they have chosen to adopt microservices application architectures and have detailed their decisions to refactor existing applications in order to implement this approach.
Simply put, event-driven microservices applications are characterized by a series of small, functional processes that run continuously and independently of one another.
Article further reads about a microservices implementation and abstraction (each microservice implements an API, but the implementation does not affect other microservices) and modularization.
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