MICROSERVICES

Better connectivity and high availability.

A conservative but bold, service-oriented architecture using microservices connects siloed data and allows your company’s digital offerings to become scalable, predictable, and efficient.

Embrace meaningful architecture


What boundaries should there be between services?

Can teams align business results with their services?

Scalability vs. siloed data. What works best?

Would your team benefit from continuous delivery methods?

Simply put, microservices serve as a connection between major online features that operate independently from one another. When correctly connected through microservices, these systems and platforms progressively improve customer experience and operations. Combined integration through microservices increases the effectiveness of these architectural building blocks. At Acro Commerce, we help our clients find the architecture that works best for their business, now and in the future.

If you have microservices and need help expanding, we're great at using existing resources and working within APIs and various architectures to solve complex problems. If you need microservices, let us walk you down that road to see just what kind of high-availability architecture or decoupled front end might be necessary.

Microservice Architecture Diagram

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Ecommerce & microservices


Headless is the right start

If your commerce engine is headless (meaning the front end is not powered by the backend), then you can fix bugs and improve your design as needed or upgrade your search index independently of your content management system.


Flexible content layout

Because of the emphasis on reusable components, React accelerates project timelines. Tokens make up the components, so every React project benefits from momentum multipliers.


Performance is sales

Customers expect fast page loads, solid shipping estimates, and unique digital experiences. Beware that some microservices architectures can introduce latency (slow pages). Loosely coupling some services, like product catalogs with stock and checkout rules that prevent delayed shipping can be critical.


Best-in-breed services

Choose the best product rating third party, get a specialized shipping and fulfillment integration, whatever it is, you can focus on investing in services that match your exact business needs.


SaaS vs. Microservices

Software as a service (SaaS): big, slow, and hard to change.
Choosing a single software as a service (SaaS) platform for your ecommerce services and other online tools can be a very reasonable first step. Unfortunately, you often get locked into spending money for features you don’t need or paying heavily for customizations to the platform that fit your unique business.

Microservices: small, fast, and meant for agility.
Microservices (smaller services) work independently, allowing for scalability and improved reliability. Going headless for your commerce core and adding additional services as needed is an excellent way to fulfill your business needs more efficiently than a traditional SaaS setup.

Microservice vs. SaaS

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