Will an application with REST APIs for handling all CRUD operations be called a microservice?

[Monica Shiralkar]

If I create an application with REST APIs which handle all the CRUD operations of an application, will it be called a microservice? If not so, then how can I create microservices in this case? Thanks

[Ashish Tewari]

I don't think it would be correct to say this. Microservices are lightweight and are intended to make loosely coupled services. You can consider a microservice is like a small service which is capable enough to provide a particular feature wihtout having dependency on other services. If in a cluster of Microservices, one of the service goes down then (ideally) it should not prevent the other services to function.


It is something like writing a program for entire Car application, you can create microservices to different components separately and deploy them independently.

You can further ead this article https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html  of Martin Fowler
 

[Monica Shiralkar]

Thanks.So in that case what can be the different microservices for the requirement I mentioned that is for handling CRUD operations for an application ?