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Should You Split Into Microservices? 👷‍♂️

We recently merged all our microservices(we had a handful) in a monolith. If you consider moving in a back direction, you need to ask yourself at least 5 questions on dependencies, different NFRs for the system parts, teams blocking each other, data boundaries and independent failures.

Two candidate services, each owning its database, with red cross-boundary queries between them: one service, cut in half


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Substack SOC2 journey at Supplied, Interview with JBaruch, Splitting into Microservices and many more in Architecture Weekly #201. Also today: Optimizing Prompt Cache, AWS EC2 Application Status Check , MicroVMs for throw-away jobs, Writing code was never the point and Meerkat: Cloudflare Consensus Solution.
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