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Microservicios

Distributed

Architecture where the application is divided into small, independent services

Principles

Single responsibility per serviceIndependent deploymentData decentralizationDesign for failure

When to use

Large teams, need to scale independently, tolerance for operational complexity

When not to use

Small teams, MVPs, simple applications, lack of DevOps experience

Pros and Cons

Ventajas

  • + Independent scalability per service
  • + Teams can work autonomously
  • + Technological flexibility (polyglot)
  • + Smaller and more frequent deployments
  • + Fault isolation

Desventajas

  • - High operational complexity
  • - Network latency between services
  • - More difficult debugging and tracing
  • - Eventual consistency vs transactional
  • - Requires mature DevOps