https://m.oursky.com/microservices-101-a-glossary-of-11-most-popular-terms-and-acronyms-2a1a941cd1e1

Microservice architecture is becoming more popular than ever, especially among agile and DevOps teams. You may have heard of a lot of buzzwords like “microservices”, “containers”, “Kubernetes” or many more. There is no doubt that microservices is full of complex theories and terminology. Here we are going to introduce a glossary of 11 most common terms and acronyms to help grow your dictionary and understand how they would benefit your team.

Microservices are an architectural pattern where various loosely coupled services work together to form an application. Each of these services focus on one single purpose only, encapsulating all related logic and data. Communications between services are conducted over well-defined APIs.