Question

Discuss how a move to a microservice approach will improve VideoDev’s ability to maintain high availability for this application.
Draw a diagram that shows the architecture of the video processing application after the transition to a microservice approach.

Answer 1

Microservice architectural style is very commonly used architecture for applications nowadays. It follows the approach of developing a software or application as a group of small functionalities or services, each of which running in its own process and communicates with light weight mechanism, often an HTTP resource API.

There is no centralized management for the services as they are independently deployed by fully automatic deployment machinery. The services are based on the requirements of the business and each functionality is put as a separate service.

The components can use different programming language and different data storage technologies.

Since the each functionality is a service and being smaller, it is recommended to move to the micro service architectural approach that will ensure and improve VideoDev,s ability to maintain high availability of the application.