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Microservices dependencies are difficult to track

After building online mortgages website and backend systems (integrated with top UK banks) using microservices (Azure, NodeJS, Mongo, React) for the new project I picked a less ambitius stack while leveraging teams know how (Azure, NodeJS, MySQL, templated HTML). This article captures my thinking:

  • Fail fast – they let development teams focus on delivering features (to prove or disprove a hypothesis) rather than a complicated microservice architecture
  • It helps you to understand your requirements (UML diagrams and domain models are not perfect first time they need to evolve)
  • Microservices are complicated to develop (e.g. graceful degradation, health checks, retries) and monitor
  • Microservices dependencies are difficult to track