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Emanuel Allely for Luos

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Why use Microservices

💬“As a microservice has less code and a definitive boundary, it is easy to build and enhance. Also, less code means less complexity, and less complexity means better quality.”

At Luos we use a microservices approach as well, which is, our opinion, the future for embedded and edge systems development.

⏩ Very interesting read by Nitin Khaitan for Medium

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