Applications built on a microservice architecture are scaled horizontally. This simply means that each unit can be increased independently as per need.

This type of configuration is generally more cost-effective than vertical scaling, and there’s no limit to how much a unit or the entire application can be scaled.

In microservices, the failure of one unit will not lead to the failure of the entire system. but performance may decrease. But its Business As Usual (BUA) approach keeps everything up and running.

The microservice architecture promotes a high level of flexibility. A developer can work on different parts of an application without disrupting the system entirely.

This is very important in an environment where roles are shared.

Remember that we mentioned applications being divided into units. These units are self-contained in the sense that they can be tested, deployed, and maintained independently.

This is a great feature as you can easily work on different components without interfering with others.

The freedom of changing only the affected unit in an application gives your application an undisputable level of reliability.

With the use of circuit-breakers, load testing and balancing, and health check endpoints, micro services can stay operational for a very long time without compromise on efficiency.

Microservice architecture has many advantages over monolithic architecture.

When it comes to implementation, monoliths lead the way. It is quite difficult to design an application following microservice patterns.

This is simply because you have to develop each part separately and then link them together. It’s a tedious task compared to the monolithic architecture.

This problem can be solved easily with tools like docker. With docker, you can create services that run on separate containers. This tool can make implementation of microservice easier.

Microservices are learned by studying different methods of decoupling. Which may be difficult to source. This can lead to an exponential increase in development as a company may be forced to outsource to an expert. This can be very costly.

Debugging can be very frustrating at times in the microservice architecture. The main reason behind this is that each unit has its own logs. which, at times, can be very difficult to detect and correct.

Vertical scaling is a way of enhancing systems specifications of existing infrastructures by adding more or replacing systems components like CPU, disks, etc with more powerful ones.

Vertical scaling can be very difficult to achieve as the scaling can lead to several downtimes, and cost more money to implement.

Horizontal scaling, which is also known as scaling out, is simply a way of enhancing a system's performance by adding new machines or computing nodes to improve data processing and storage capabilities.

This type of configuration is very important in organizations that need zero-downtime and a cost effective solution of increasing the system's specification. Horizontal scaling is easier and quicker to achieve than vertical scaling in most cases.