The Hidden Costs of Microservices

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The Promise

Independent deployability, technology diversity, fault isolation, and team autonomy. These are real benefits — for the right scale and team.

The Reality

Distributed transactions, network latency, service discovery, observability sprawl, and the dreaded "which service owns this?" question.

My Rule of Thumb

Start with a well-structured monolith. Extract services when you have real evidence that a boundary needs to be independent — not when you think it might someday.