In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

Modern microservices architectures are event-driven, reactive, and choreographed (as opposed to being centrally controlled via an orchestrator). That makes them loosely coupled and easy to change.

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