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Microservices Interview Questions

Microservices Interview Questions 1. What is a Microservice in Java? A Microservice is a small and autonomous piece of code that does one thing very well. It is focused on doing well one specific task in a big system. It is also an autonomous entity that can be designed, developed and deployed independently. Generally, it is implemented as a REST service on HTTP protocol, with technology-agnostic APIs. Ideally, it does not share database with any other service. 2. What are the benefits of Microservices architecture? Microservices provide many benefits. Some of the key benefits are: 1.      Scaling : Since there are multiple Microservices instead of one monolith, it is easier to scale up the service that is being used more. Eg. Let say, you have a Product Lookup service and Product Buy service. The frequency of Product Lookup is much higher than Product Buy service. In this case, you can just scale up the Product Lookup service to run on powerful hardware with multipl