2 posts tagged with "microservices"

The cloud stopped being just infrastructure a long time ago. It's an economic model where every engineering decision has a direct impact on business costs. And that's exactly where the line between "works fine" and "designed well" is drawn.

When building distributed systems, the "Database per Service" rule is often seen as a strict rule. The common instinct is to create a separate physical database cluster for each microservice to ensure full isolation. However, as your system expands, managing dozens or hundreds of independent database servers can quickly become an operational nightmare.