Microservices rely little on cooperation and need to discover services in order to communicate. Communication becomes a challenge with features such as replication, failover, and load balancing. The PaaS platform should take care of the challenges so that the developers can focus on delivering features. Microsoft Azure Service Fabric provides all of these features along with an easy programming model to solve these challenges.

As application delivery keeps on getting more agile, developers will keep asking for more features from the platform to deliver solutions that offer business value. There is a need to develop, iterate, and evolve rather than building monoliths that accumulate technical debt over a period and get retired after that.

Microsoft Azure offers several services that can be integrated to compose a solution that realizes a Microservices architecture. Using Service Fabric as a platform and the various Microsoft Azure services as enablers, developers can build unprecedented applications. Let's look at the various service offerings of Microsoft Azure.