5 Microservices Pitfalls to Avoid Early
I've seen teams jump into microservices with high hopes, only to hit the same walls months later. Here are the traps I've encountered and how to sidestep them.
1. Premature Decomposition
The trap: Breaking a monolith into microservices before you understand the domain boundaries. You end up with chatty services, distributed monoliths, or services that need to be redeployed together.
The fix: Start with a well-modularized monolith. Use bounded contexts from Domain-Driven Design to identify service boundaries. Only extract services when you have clear, stable boundaries and a reason (e.g., scaling, team ownership).
