Pros and Cons of Service Fabric Microservices

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Service Fabric is a microservice orchestration platform. Microservice application design stresses the decoupling of solution functionality into discrete components that can operate and scale independently. These loosely coupled services offer benefits over traditional monolithic applications, including the following:

Microservices can be reused across solutions
Microservices can be developed by separate teams, each of which may use its technologies of choice
Microservices can be updated frequently and on separate schedules
Microservices can be hosted in different places, such as in clouds and on-premises
Microservices are lightweight, which simplifies deployment and speeds restart for high availability.

The growing popularity of highly scalable cloud environments has driven a trend toward microservice solution designs. However, not all solution types are best suited for microservice implementation, and the architecture has disadvantages if not applied appropriately, including the following:

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