Microservices is a cloud native architectural approach, where in we design, develop and package loosely coupled modules that consists of end-to-end flow of a single unit of work and can be deployed independently and are environment independent.

Typically, microservices are used to speed up application development. Microservices architectures built using Java are common, especially Spring Boot ones. It’s also common to compare microservices versus service-oriented architecture. Both have the same objective, which is to break up monolithic applications into smaller components, but they have different approaches.