Build smaller microservices with a flexible, easy to use way to build HTTP APIs without excess overhead.
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If you’re building cloud-native applications with microservices, they need to be small. You don’t want code that comes with enough dependencies and required libraries to turn something that should be able to scale in milliseconds into megabytes of code. Small services deploy faster, scaling applications quickly, reducing latency, and ensuring a consistent user experience.
Much of the dead weight in APIs is part and parcel of using application frameworks designed for large-scale, complex applications where you need all that code to deliver the necessary performance and capabilities. But not every application needs to support all those use cases. If you only need to return a single value or a string when an API is called, you want something as minimalist as the data you’re delivering.