🧩 Microservices Architecture
Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, independent, and loosely coupled services. Each service is responsible for a specific business capability and can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.
🚦 When Should You Use Microservices?
- Your application is growing and becoming difficult to manage as a single codebase (monolith).
- You want to scale specific parts of your system independently (e.g., scale only the API or worker service).
- Your team is large and you want to enable independent development and deployment cycles.
- You need to use different technologies or databases for different parts of your system.
- You want to improve system resilience—if one service fails, others keep running.
🎯 Purpose of Microservices
- Break down complex applications into manageable, focused services.
- Enable independent deployment and scaling of services.
- Allow teams to work autonomously on different services.
- Increase system resilience and fault isolation.
- Facilitate technology diversity and experimentation.
🔗 Types of Microservices
- API Services: Handle HTTP requests and expose endpoints for clients.
- Worker Services: Perform background jobs, processing, or scheduled tasks.
- Gateway Services: Aggregate and route requests to other microservices.
- Event-Driven Services: Communicate via events/messages (e.g., using queues or pub/sub).
- Database Services: Own and manage specific data domains.
🚀 Forjnot: Ready for Microservices
Forjnot is architected to make adding microservices seamless. You can introduce new services (like apps/worker, apps/api-gateway, etc.) right alongside your existing apps. The shared packages/ directory lets you reuse types, DTOs, configs, and utilities across all services, making scaling and maintenance a breeze.
mkdir apps/workermkdir apps/api-gatewayThe template is designed to scale as your needs grow—add as many microservices as you want, and keep your codebase organized and maintainable.