The document discusses microservices architecture. It defines microservices as an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services that communicate with each other. Each service runs in its own process and communicates through lightweight mechanisms like HTTP APIs. The services are developed and deployed independently, allowing for continuous delivery. Microservices aim to overcome issues like monolithic architecture such as reduced maintainability and scalability. The document outlines some of the benefits and challenges of the microservices approach.