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🧩 Essential Components of a Microservice Application

Modern microservice architectures are composed of multiple distributed components working together seamlessly. Here's a breakdown of the core building blocks required to build, deploy, and maintain a robust microservice system.

🚪 API Gateway

The API Gateway serves as the entry point for all client interactions with the system.

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🧭 Service Registry and Discovery

In dynamic systems, services often scale in and out, so it's important for services to discover each other dynamically.

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🧱 Service Layer

Each microservice is responsible for a single business capability and is deployed independently.

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🔐 Authorization Server

To protect your system, implement centralized authentication and authorization.

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🗃️ Data Storage

Each service should ideally manage its own data to avoid tight coupling.

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⚡ Distributed Caching

To reduce latency and offload the databases, use distributed caching.

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📨 Async Communication Layer

For decoupled, scalable, and resilient systems, asynchronous messaging is critical.

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📊 Metrics and Monitoring

Monitoring is critical to observe the system’s behavior in real-time.

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📋 Logging and Observability

Logs help in debugging, auditing, and understanding service interactions.

Logging Stack:

🧪 Example Microservice Setup

Client → API Gateway → Service A
                         ↓
            ┌─────────Service Registry────────┐
            │                                  ↓
    Service A → Kafka → Service B → Redis/PostgreSQL
                         ↓
                   Log Aggregator → ELK Stack
                         ↓
                   Metrics → Prometheus → Grafana

🧠 Best Practices

📚 Learning Resources

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