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What Is a Microservice?
A microservice is a small, independent, and single-tasked piece of software that is part of a larger application and can be used by different applications. An important point to note is that a microservice is independent, meaning that if there is a problem with a particular microservice, that problem can’t affect the application’s overall functionality. You can modify and debug a microservice without affecting other microservices or the application itself.
Furthermore, a microservice is a self-contained program that runs asynchronously while collectively completing a process with other microservices or applications. For example, to reset a password on request, one microservice resets the login retry threshold, another ...
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