Wasn't it easy to develop a production-ready monolithic application with JHipster? So far, we have created an application from scratch, added a few entities with JDL Studio, and then deployed it to the production environment along with tests. We have also added a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline. Wasn't the experience faster, easier, and better than coding everything from scratch?

So what's next? Yes, you guessed it right – microservices!

Microservices is the buzzword everywhere these days. Many companies out there are trying to solve their problems with microservices. We already saw an overview of the benefits of microservices in Chapter 1, Introduction to Modern Web Application Development.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following:

• Benefits of microservices over monoliths
• Components that we need to build a complete microservices architecture

After that, we will see how easy it is to create a microservices architecture using the options JHipster provides.