As applications grow in size and complexity, monolithic architectures often become difficult to scale, maintain, and deploy. That’s why many modern development teams are turning to microservices architecture — a method of breaking down an application into smaller, independent services.
Node.js, with its lightweight runtime, asynchronous capabilities, and extensive ecosystem, has become a popular choice for building microservices. In this article, we’ll explore the advantages of using Node.js in a microservices architecture, as well as the challenges you may encounter — and how to address them.