Microservices Architecture: How much was it influenced by Mobile applications?

Many of the articles and talks about microservices architecture leave out an important concept. They mention the influencers to microservices, but leave out one of the major influencers of microservices architecture: the mobile web and mobile native applications. One of the major influences to microservices architecture is the mobile web and the proliferation of native mobile applications. ...

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Frameworks like Akka, QBit, Vert.x, Ratpack, Node.js, Restlets are more streamlined to support the communication/service backends of mobile application development which is more of a reactive microservices architecture approach to development focused on WebSocket, and HTTP calls with JSON and not on a classic three-tiered web application now named a monolith by the microservices architecture crowd (a term I do not like). 

The main influencers of reactive microservices architecture is mobile applications (native and mobile web), richer web application, cloud computing, NoSQL movement, continuous X (integration and deployment), and the backlash to traditional eat-the-world SOA. 

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Read more about high-speed microservices, Java microservices architecture and reactive microservices from a series of articles that we wrote.

Related links:

• Reactive Programming, Java Microservices, Rick Hightower
• High-speed microservices consulting firm and authors of QBit with lots of experience with Vertx - Mammatus Technology
• Highly recommended consulting and training firm who specializes in microservices architecture and mobile development that are already very familiar with QBit and Vertx as well as iOS and Android - About Objects
• Java Microservices Architecture
• Microservice Service Discovery with Consul
• Reactive Microservices
• High Speed Microservices
• Java Microservices Consulting
• Mobile Microservices

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