Microservices: A retrospective

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Microservices are pitched as velocity, scale and resilience but the real payoff is organizational scaling: teams gain independence and less synchronization. Lessons: keep very small APIs and avoid shared datastores; automate deploys with infrastructure as code (Terraform), deployment tooling (Spinnaker) and monitoring stacks (ELK, New Relic); learn distributed “laws of physics” (Lamport, CAP). Practical wins come from event patterns — event sourcing and sagas — which increase observability, enable eventual consistency, and make large systems simpler and more resilient.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:36Why do Microservices?
3. 10:26Let me explain
4. 16:53Small is Good
5. 19:55Polyglot Ahoy
6. 23:06Conway Knows
7. 25:09Operations Matter
8. 28:36The Laws of Physics
9. 31:12Observability
10. 35:48Quick Recap
11. 36:42Events
12. 42:24Commoditization
13. 43:54Further Reading

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