We talked about business-specific and agnostic microservices, which are increasingly containerized. The container images of any software can be uniformly packaged, quickly shipped, and easily deployed across any software platforms to run and deliver their functionalities without any hitch or hurdle. With the rapid growth of a variety of purpose-specific and agnostic devices, there's a continued rise of device services, which are MSA-compliant. We have a variety of devices, such as medical instruments, robots, drones, wares, utensils, appliances, consumer electronics, and machines, which are gradually being connected in order to join in the mainstream computing arena. Leading market analysis and research reports forecast that there will be billions of connected devices in another one to two years.

The various functionalities of connected devices are being exposed via service interfaces. The service paradigm could fulfil the much-needed interoperability among different and distributed devices. That is, every device is being projected as a findable, flexible, and usable service. The robustness, versatility, and resiliency of microservices come in handy when presenting devices as services to the outside world, which eliminates all kinds of dependency-induced challenges.