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Introduction to Microservices

Everything through Module 17 lived in one deployable application. This module is the decision to split it apart — and, honestly, why you often shouldn't rush into it.

Learning objectives

  • Beginner: State the core trade-off microservices make compared to a monolith (independent deployability versus operational complexity).
  • Intermediate: Reason about where to draw a service boundary for a given feature, rather than splitting arbitrarily by technical layer.
  • Advanced: Recognize when splitting into microservices is premature for a given team/system size, and argue for staying a monolith a while longer.

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Introduction to Microservices

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