What is micro services architecture?

Microservices architecture is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled, independently deployable services, modeled around a business domain. Each microservice is responsible for a single, well-defined task and communicates with other services through APIs, often using lightweight protocols like HTTP. This approach enhances scalability, resilience, and agility, as individual services can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. It's commonly used in complex applications where independent teams can work on different parts of the system without interfering with each other.