Designing in the World of Microservices

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Focuses on design rules that matter for microservices: favor autonomy of development and isolated deployment, partition by domain not tech, and enforce encapsulation so each service owns its data (avoid a shared enterprise database). Argues YAGNI and last‑responsible‑moment beat premature interfaces, warns reuse can break deployment autonomy, cites Conway’s Law and a real insurance example with thousands of tables and ~800 columns to show why bounded context and sensible granularity are essential.

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1. 0:00Introduction to microservices design
2. 1:24Good software design principles
3. 13:17SOLID principles and YAGNI
4. 19:58What are microservices?
5. 24:53Microservices vs monoliths and SOA
6. 34:18Key microservices considerations
7. 41:22Encapsulation and bounded contexts
8. 47:07Practical example and data design
9. 55:21Summary and Q&A

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