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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?