Use Y-axis scaling of the Scale Cube

The big idea was that for some applications the monolithic architecture didn’t make sense. For these applications, better architecture is to apply the Y-axis scaling of the scale cube and structure the application as a collection of independently deployable services.

X-Axis: Horizontal Duplication and Cloning of services and data

▪ Y-Axis: Functional Decomposition and Segmentation – Microservices

▪ Z-Axis: Service and Data Partitioning along Customer

Boundaries - Shards/Pods

▪ Functional decomposition can be achieved by decoupling your architecture into functions with Y-axis.

▪ Microservices is an example for functional decomposing.

▪ Y-axis scaling splits the application into multiple, different services.

▪ Combining both X and Y-Axis scaling with microservices architecture can give better scalability

https://microservices.io/post/microservices/2022/04/23/ten-years-of-microservices.html