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5 questions in Microservices.

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A platform adopts microservices and now needs service discovery, distributed tracing, multiple pipelines, a message broker and complex local development. Which of these costs are inherent and which indicate a boundary problem?

A team adopted microservices and now every feature touches five services, five pipelines and a distributed debugging session. Which boundaries were justified, and when is consolidation the improvement?

An organisation cites Netflix as justification for adopting microservices. What is missing from the comparison?

Authentication, rate limiting and request tracing must behave identically across 60 services written in four languages, and the rules change roughly monthly. Where should that logic live?

Your organisation has grown to 2,000 microservices. Teams report that understanding and changing the system is now harder than before decomposition. What do you do?