Microservice Architecture
Supported by KongMicroservice Architecture Glossary
A work-in-progress definition of terms that are not expressed as patterns.
API
A service’s reason for existing. It consists of:
- Zero or more operations
- Zero or more published domain events
Command
A command is an operation that mutates data.
Operation
An endpoint that is invokable by a service’s client. There are two types of operations: commands and queries An operation can be invoked synchronously or asynchronously.
Pattern
A pattern is a “reusable solution to a problem that occurs in particular context”. Read more
Query
A query is an operation that retrieves data.
Service
Each service is an element of the Microservice Architecture that is:
- Highly maintainable and testable
- Loosely coupled with other services
- Independently deployable - it an independently deployable/executable component, such as a WAR file, executable JAR, EAR file, OSGI Bundle, or operating System executable
- Owned by a small, cross-functional team
A service has an API.
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