News Summary

• Microservices are inherently less energy efficient than monoliths due to their distributed nature, often leading to increased network traffic and resource overhead.
• By carefully defining service boundaries and optimizing how services are deployed, organizations can significantly reduce the energy footprint of their microservices architecture.
• These optimizations fall into two main categories: design-related and operational-related efficiencies.
• The optimal approach is to maintain a balance of modular design, diminishing the advantages of a monolithic application, and diminishing the risks of excessive consolidation.