The SDLC is a well-established method of creating software and Blocshop is here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be an overwhelming process, as long as you understand the phases and what to expect.
Microservices architecture is a way of designing applications that uses independent modules. Each microservice is small, focused on its own functionality, and only deals with one aspect of the application. This approach makes microservices easy to change or fix. Microservices are faster to develop, test, deploy, and scale independently.
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a system of structured communication. It lets an application get information from an external service or product using a set of commands. These commands and the information they produce are predictable and usually exhaustively documented.
Monolithic applications are built and deployed as a single unit. This is the traditional approach to creating applications: all modules are combined in one self-contained codebase. All developers work on the same codebase and are committed to a single development stack, including languages, libraries, tools, and everything else used to create the application. Changing any of these elements is a major challenge in a monolithic architecture. Any changes or fixes have the potential to cause problems for everyone involved.