What Even Are Microservices?
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- Microservices are difficult to define technically; their boundaries are organizational rather than based on code size or responsibilities.
- The main problem microservices solve is organizational scaling, allowing teams to work independently, not technical issues like slow builds or tests.
- Microservices trade centralization for autonomy, introducing network communication costs, runtime failures, and loss of easy static analysis.
- Team communication overhead increases as API changes become negotiations requiring versioning and coordinated database changes.
- Microservices should be chosen for organizational scaling needs, not as a purely technical solution.