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Microservices

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Architecture splitting an application into many small independent services. Solves scaling problems large companies have, gets adopted by small companies who then have distributed-systems problems instead.

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“We split the monolith into forty microservices and now debugging needs a map.”

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You must be this tall to ride. Adopting Netflix's architecture without Netflix's problems imports only the complexity.

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