Microservices Architecture

Topics

• Service boundaries
• Bounded contexts
• Database-per-service
• API composition
• Service discovery
• API gateways
• Service mesh
• Saga
• CQRS
• Contract testing
• Versioning
• Strangler pattern
• Anti-corruption layer
• Modular monolith

Core question

When does decomposition improve a system, and when does it merely distribute complexity?