How to explain microservices in plain English
Summary
If you polled 100 of your closest IT friends on today’s buzziest tech topics, we’d bet that microservices would crack the top 10. Along with containers, the microservices approach to architecting, building, and operating applications runs hot in software circles. Microservices architecture is also commonly touted, in concert with containers and orchestration, as a natural fit for applications that will run in the cloud and/or Software-as-a-Service apps. Let’s hear from our other experts about how they briefly explain microservices, in terms that you don’t need to be a software developer or cloud architect to understand. You’ll see some themes here worth using when talking microservices, especially when translating what is ultimately a complex topic for a non-IT audience.