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Pascual Vila

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Common Pitfalls & Errors

The Error //

Splitting a system into microservices by default, without a specific operational pain point driving the decision

// Risky default: splitting because "microservices are modern"
// Better: split when a REAL pain point demands it
// e.g. genuinely divergent scaling needs, or independent team deploy cadence

The Solution //

Premature service boundaries, drawn before the domain and its actual scaling/deployment needs are well understood, are expensive to get wrong and difficult to redraw later — and they introduce real complexity (network calls, distributed transactions) without a corresponding benefit if there was no genuine pain point requiring the split. Start as a well-structured monolith and extract services when specific, real needs demand it.

The Error //

Extracting services that remain tightly, synchronously coupled to each other (a distributed monolith)

// Distributed monolith: tightly coupled despite being "separate"
// Service A --sync--> Service B --sync--> Service C
// All three must deploy together — no real independence gained

The Solution //

If Service A must synchronously call Service B which must synchronously call Service C, and all three must be deployed together for the system to function, the split has added network-call overhead and operational complexity without achieving any real independence — the services can't actually scale, deploy, or fail independently.