advancedCapstone — A Resilient Microservices System

Why is applying every pattern in this category to a small, low-stakes internal tool considered over-engineering?

Running a Config Server, a Eureka instance, and tuning circuit breaker thresholds all carry real ongoing operational cost — that cost needs to be weighed against the actual failure modes a small, low-traffic system will realistically encounter, not applied reflexively just because the patterns exist.

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