---
title: "Microservices Architecture | Ultimate Guide & Tutorial"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/microservices-architecture-ultimate-guide-tutorial-2lj1hup6a
source_url: https://www.containiq.com/post/microservices-architecture
type: article
source: "ContainIQ"
published: 2022-05-05T13:52:05.191Z
updated: 2024-08-30T02:26:02.623Z
tags: ["architecture", "monolith"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 47
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Microservices Architecture | Ultimate Guide & Tutorial

**[ContainIQ](https://daily.dev/sources/containiq)** · 11 min read · 47 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Microservices architecture is a software architecture pattern where each task performed by an application is handled by an independent application called a service. This service often manages its own database, and communicates to other services through events, messages, or a REST API. Microservices ease the task of building software, especially at scale.

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**@satyasc** · 0 upvotes

> good explanation and easy to understand Microservices conceptually

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