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Death by a thousand microservices
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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Microservices are a reflection of Conway's law. You can bend it with multiple services masquerading as a monolith. But you can't break it and when you need to decouple deployments, data releases, and development across a fairly large org: they're hard to beat. Of course OP is right, just call them services too. One per team is about as much as you want to break out, don't go micro