Innovation with Microservices: The Intelligent, Cloud-Native Foundation

Editor’s note (2025): This article has been updated to reflect the latest developments and accurate information as of 2025.

Microservices are an architectural style that has matured from a transformative trend into a fundamental pillar of modern digital strategy. They are extremely important for organizations wanting to innovate through a stronger, more agile engagement with their ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and partners.

Let’s use the example from the financial sector: your organization is the sponsoring bank at a major sporting event. Your mobile application offers comprehensive financial services, but during the event, there will be a massive surge in traffic for specific functions, like the ATM Locator or Peer-to-Peer Fund Transfer.

In a traditional, monolithic application architecture, this traffic surge would force you to add capacity to the entire application (costly and inefficient) or risk a system-wide slowdown, degrading the user experience across all functions.

With a Microservices ...