Microservices vs APIs: What's The Difference?
Yatin B.Date: 2021-07-07
This tutorial compares microservices and APIs, highlighting key differences. Microservices are independent, small applications forming a larger application suite, communicating via synchronous or asynchronous methods. They offer advantages like independent scalability and deployment but also present challenges in complexity and management. The tutorial contrasts microservices with monolithic applications and touches upon REST APIs. In short, APIs are the communication mechanism, while microservices are a specific architectural style using those mechanisms.
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