Microservices architecture is becoming very popular now, but it’s not a new concept; a lot of companies are already successfully using it and Bench is one of them. In the beginning, Bench's app was a classic JEE monolith written with Spring and Java, so we've been evolving it by implementing new features using microservices. This post is the first in a series of posts on microservices and it will outline the technologies we’re using to build microservices.