December 2025
Intermediate to advanced
538 pages
13h 28m
English
In the previous chapter, we explored the concepts of event sourcing and event stores. Event sourcing patterns help us reconcile changes made to our data stores across our microservices. Now, we’ll pivot to the broader scope of data management in a microservices architecture.
This is a critical challenge and a key enabler of system scalability, resilience, and maintainability. Unlike monolithic applications, where data is typically managed in a centralized database, microservices encourage a decentralized data ownership model. Each service is responsible for data storage, retrieval, and consistency mechanisms, which introduce data integrity, transactions, and inter-service communication complexities. ...
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