# Microservices: How To Make Your Application Scale

**Authors:** Nicola Dragoni, Ivan Lanese, Stephan Thordal Larsen, Manuel Mazzara,, Ruslan Mustafin, Larisa Safina

arXiv: 1702.07149 · 2017-02-24

## TL;DR

This paper explains how microservice architecture enhances application scalability by detailing its main features and their benefits in modern software design.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of microservices and emphasizes their role in improving scalability, highlighting key features that enable this.

## Key findings

- Microservices improve scalability of applications.
- Key features of microservices include modularity and independence.
- Microservices facilitate flexible and scalable software design.

## Abstract

The microservice architecture is a style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity and that promises to change the way in which software is perceived, conceived and designed. In this paper, we describe the main features of microservices and highlight how these features improve scalability.

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