A Few Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier About Microservices

Things That Make More Sense in Practice

Microservices usually communicate via APIs, message queues, or events — not direct function calls. One of the biggest challenges in microservices is managing distributed transactions across multiple independent services.

Why They Matter

In a microservices architecture, each service typically owns its own database and never accesses another service's database directly. Tutorials often gloss over points like these, but they make a real difference on an actual project.