The Five Ways Microservices Talk to Each Other
Before picking REST, gRPC, or Kafka, you need to answer a more basic question: does this interaction block, and does the caller expect an answer? Get that wrong and no technology choice saves you.
Distributed-Systems
What Actually Makes a Good Microservice Boundary
Before you draw a single service boundary, you need a vocabulary for why some splits age well and others turn into a distributed monolith. Coupling and cohesion are that vocabulary.
Should You Even Use Microservices?
Microservices are a solution to organizational scaling problems, not a technology choice. Here’s how to tell whether you actually have the problem they solve, before you pay the cost.