Identifying bounded contexts
One of the most challenging tasks in designing a microservices-based architecture is to get the bounded context right for each microservice. It is an iterative process that requires a thorough understanding of business capabilities and business domain. Business capabilities must not be confused with business functions or processes. Business capabilities target the what part of a business and have an outcome, whereas a business process targets the how part. For example, alerting is a business capability, whereas sending an email is a business process. A business capability may incorporate one or more business processes.
Bounded contexts must target business capabilities and not business processes. To identify the ...
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