Should Your Team Be Using Microservice Architectures?

The number of mentions of “microservices architecture” plunged 42% between January 2019 and September 2020, according to a recent Gartner social media analytics study. This trend points to growing disillusionment with microservices architecture — a design paradigm that aims to increase agility, deployment flexibility and precise scalability by applying service-oriented architecture and domain-driven design principles to distributed applications (i.e. microservices).