You can go even further, and this architecture is becoming more and more popular in business applications. James Lewis and Martin Fowler coined the per "Micros

You can go even further, and this architecture is becoming more and more popular in business applications. James Lewis and Martin Fowler coined the per "Microservices" for this emerging pattern: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html