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The Patterns That Actually Matter: What Building Microservices at Scale Taught Me About Distributed Systems

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The first time I decomposed a monolith into microservices, I made every mistake in the book. We ended up with a distributed monolith—all the complexity of microservices with none of the benefits. That painful experience taught me that microservices architecture isn’t about the services themselves; it’s about the patterns that make them work together. Microservices… Continue reading