Citation :

Vijaya R Varma Pothuri, Rama C Koppula, 2024. "Scalable Microservices Architectures: Building Resilient Distributed Systems for the Modern Web" ESP International Journal of Advancements in Computational Technology (ESP-IJACT) Volume 2, Issue 3: 101-109.

Abstract :

The advancement of technologies on the web and the constant need for modern applications in today’s world made the architects go with the microservices architecture. This architectural style is about decomposing monumental applications into a set of microservices that can be developed, deployed, and scaled separately. Microservices architecture is very beneficial for different SOAs, as it provides better scalability, fault tolerance, and maintainability. However, it is also associated with problems like inter-service communication, consistently replicated data and service discovery. The objective of this paper is to offer a detailed handbook on achieving horizontally scalable and fault-tolerant microservices systems. We start by presenting the main ideas of microservices, including decomposition, data ownership, and fault tolerance. Having established the architectural layers in the cloud foundry platform, we expand into the architectural components: the service registry, the API gateway, the load balancer and the service mesh, and we look at some of the tools that enable the implementation of these components; Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and Jenkins, among others.

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Keywords :

Microservices, Scalability, Resilience, Distributed Systems, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Container Orchestration, Observability.