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What's a common mistake teams make when first containerizing a Spring Boot microservices architecture?

Hardcoding service addresses (IP:port) instead of relying on DNS-based service discovery (container/service names), which breaks the moment a container is recreated with a different IP — the fix is always referencing dependent services by their Docker/Compose/Kubernetes service name and letting the platform's embedded DNS resolve it.

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