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title: "Microservice"
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/glossary/microservice/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/glossary/microservice.png"
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# Microservice

A software development architecture that breaks your application up into
multiple independent services that interact with one another. Each service
performs a specific task, and may have its own resources such as a database.