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Embracing Microservices Design
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Embracing Microservices Design

by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Nabil Siddiqui, Timothy Oleson
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
7h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Failing to Understand the Role of DDD

It could be argued that an anti-pattern when building microservices is not having a deep understanding of the business domain or the problem space and then trying to implement microservice tactical patterns. This can lead to chaos or a large, distributed monolith that is tightly coupled and overly complex.

Microservices are collections of services that are designed to meet a common goal or serve a particular business feature. Microservices must work together to meet this common goal. In some cases, a service may be completely unaware of its role when it comes to the bigger picture or may not have knowledge of any other microservices. On the other hand, the teams that build these services should ...

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ISBN: 9781801818384