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How To Fail at Microservices

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No one wants to fail at microservices. No one sets out to do that. But it’s easy to do given the difficulty of microservices and the surprising number of ways we can fail.

I’m usually an advocate for microservices, at least where they are warranted and when implemented well. Usually, I teach cheaper, more straightforward, and more effective ways to use microservices, but in this article, I want to take a different tack. I will describe the many ways we can fail at microservices. Towards the end, we’ll look at what we can do to escape the hell we created (or maybe that we inherited).

There are many ways to fail at development. The following list is compiled from experience in the field. These are all real examples from real production applications.

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