Cloud Native

https://stackify.com/cloud-native/

https://stackify.com/communication-microservices-avoid-common-problems/

https://pivotal.io/cloud-native

“An approach that builds software applications as microservices and runs them on a containerized and dynamically orchestrated platform to utilize the advantages of the cloud computing model.”

Even so, you can do that with a monolithic application or a system of microservices; it’s often a lot cheaper to scale a system of microservices. You just need to scale the microservice that gets a lot of load. As long as the rest of the system can handle the current load, you don’t need to add any additional instances of the other services.You can’t do that with a monolith. If you need to increase the capacity of one feature, you need to start a new instance of the complete monolith. That might not seem like a big deal, but in a cloud environment, you pay for the usage of hardware resources. And even if you only use a small part of the monolith, you still need to acquire additional resources for the other, unused parts.