Introduction
This is the second part of sharing my journey to create a microservices-based backend system, in the previous part, I introduced the system and its services.
In this part I am going to mention the main things that happened with me from then until now.
Transitioning to online DBaaS platforms
The first main thing was to transition my databases from my local device to accessible over the internet. I used Neon and MongoDB Atlas. Although performance-wise it is better to deploy the database on the same server that the whole system so all services can access the databases without network overhead, This solution is better from a point, that is avoiding consuming the free VM instance that I got to host my main services, as with DBaaS platforms I will not require storage for databases or additional overhead to handle the DBMS on a free small resources-constrained VM.
