===== architecture:microservice =====

Scale cube and microservices:

  * X-AXIS SCALING LOAD BALANCES REQUESTS ACROSS MULTIPLE INSTANCES
  * Z-AXIS SCALING ROUTES REQUESTS BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE REQUEST
  * Y-AXIS SCALING FUNCTIONALLY DECOMPOSES AN APPLICATION INTO SERVICES

^                           ^                                                          SOA                                                           ^                                                                                                                       Microservices^
|Inter-service communication|  Smart pipes, such as Enterprise Service Bus, using heavyweight protocols, such as SOAP and the other WS* standards.  |  Dumb pipes, such as a message broker, or direct service-to-service communication, using lightweight protocols such as REST or gRPC|
|data                       |                                        Global data model and shared data bases                                         |                                                                                                 Data model and database per service|
|Typical service            |                                             Larger monolithic application                                              |                                                                                                                     Smaller service|