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Microservices Architecture for Scalable, Resilient Systems

Independent services, independent teams, independent releases.

Independent services, independent teams, independent releases.

What's included

  • Architecture assessment (monolith vs microservices decision)
  • Domain-driven design and service boundaries
  • Monolith decomposition (strangler fig pattern)
  • API design: REST, GraphQL, gRPC; API gateway
  • Event-driven communication: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS
  • Data management per service, CQRS, event sourcing, saga patterns
  • Service mesh, service discovery, load balancing
  • Containerization and Kubernetes deployment
  • Resilience: circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting
  • Distributed tracing and observability (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
  • Security: OAuth2, JWT, mTLS
  • Testing: contract testing, chaos engineering

Architecture trade-offs

Microservices introduce operational overhead. A modular monolith may be a better fit when independent service ownership and deployments are not needed.

Frequently asked questions

  • Is microservices right for a startup?
  • How long does decomposition take?