Software Development
Microservices architecture decomposes an application into small, independently deployable services that communicate via APIs or events. It enables independent scaling and team autonomy but increases operational overhead.
A modular monolith is better for teams under 30 engineers. Microservices are justified when you need independent scaling, have massive team coordination issues, or must isolate data for regulatory reasons.
It is the recommended way to migrate from a monolith. You incrementally extract functionality into new services behind an API gateway, eventually retiring the monolith piece by piece without a big-bang rewrite.
A pattern where services communicate by publishing and consuming events (via Kafka/RabbitMQ) rather than making synchronous calls. It provides temporal decoupling and better resilience to downstream failures.
An infra layer for service-to-service communication (Istio/Linkerd). You need one when managing 10+ services or requiring complex traffic management and zero-trust security.
We implement the three pillars of observability: Distributed Tracing (to see request flow), Structured Logging (to retrieve logs via Trace ID), and Metrics (to monitor health).
