Choosing the right application architecture, whether Monolithic or Microservice for mobile app, plays a crucial role in developing any mobile or web application. It involves focusing on the set of technologies to be used and the models necessary for structuring a complete application. Emphasizing the architecture is essential to ensure compatibility with wireless devices like iPads, tablets, and other devices.
In this blog, we are going to discuss in brief about Monolithic architecture and Microservice Architecture for Mobile Apps, its benefits, and drawbacks in application development. Let us start with Monolithic architecture, followed by Microservice Architecture.
Monolithic Architecture:
Monolithic architecture defines a software application developed from a single program, combining different components from a single platform into one piece.
The components of Monolithic Architecture
- Notification Module: For sending email notification whenever required
- Application Integration: Integration with other data sources or other services like messaging or REST API
- Authorization: Should be responsible for authorizing any user
- Business Logic: The logic in the business application.
- Presentation: Responding through either HTML or JSON/XML and take responsibility in handling HTTP requests
- Database Layer: For accessing databases, the responsible data access objects need to be focused.
Benefits of Monolithic Architecture:
- Easy to develop: Initially while starting the project, it is easy to go with Monolithic architecture
- Easy to test: The testing process is made simple just by launching the application and testing the UI with selenium
- Easy to deploy: The application deploy process just need to imprint the packaged application to the server.
Drawbacks of Monolithic Architecture
- Upon every new update, the application needs to be redeployed
- If the application is complex and difficult to understand, it is tough to make changes.
- Bugs in the form of memory leak, in any module, will lead to bringing down the entire process
- It is difficult for Monolithic applications to adapt to advanced technologies.
- Changes in frameworks and language require more effort to work with the details of the application, thus constituting a significant budget in terms of both time and effort.
Microservice Architecture:
In a Microservice Architecture, developers build large applications as loosely coupled services, and they handle delicate protocols. Here each of the services has its own database, and service can make use of the database depending on its need. Let us focus on the services for a complete application.
The components of Microservice Architecture
- Authorization Service: responsible for the authorization of users
- Order Service: handle the order by processing it
- Catalog Service: Management of products inventory
- Cart Service: Managing the user’s cart
- Payment Service: Managing and authorizing the payments process
- Shipping Service: Delivering the ordered products
Let us now check the benefits and drawbacks of Microservice architecture.
Benefits of Microservice Architecture
- Deployment of large and complex applications
- Services are smaller and faster to test and are deployed independently
- Allows to organize the development work within different teams
- Easy for a developer to understand
- It removes the long term commitment to a particular technology stack
- If developers apply any major changes to the existing service, they can rewrite it using a new technology stack.
Drawbacks of Microservice Architecture
- It is difficult for the developers while dealing with a distributed system
- Testing is a bit complex when compared to Monolithic Application
- The deployment process becomes complex because the system comprises different service types.
- Implementation of used cases will spam many other services as it requires careful coordination between the team members.
Conclusion:
As we can see from the discussion that both the approaches of Monolithic or Microservice for Mobile App Architecture have their pros and cons, but it depends on the scenario or the project requirements in order to choose the right architecture for a successful project.
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