How do you improve the value of your microservices?

To improve the value of microservices: Optimize Scalability: Ensure each microservice scales independently to handle increased demand efficiently. Enhance Reusability: Design services with reusability in mind, reducing duplication and fostering faster development. Ensure Robust Communication: Use reliable messaging systems and APIs to enable smooth inter-service communication. Automate Monitoring and Recovery: Implement monitoring and auto-recovery mechanisms to minimize downtime and enhance reliability. Secure and Manage Dependencies: Enforce strict security protocols and manage dependencies to prevent vulnerabilities across services.

This is one of the fundamental stuff most of the teams miss when they start building the micro services. I have seen large clients struggling with their choice of API composition with mule or any middleware. ( although both separate of the micro services context are great choices ) Primary reason being the lack of the functional context and the boundaries of the data & relation

This applies more to the maturity of the team involved. Choice of framework and methodology involved during the vision if derailed during an implementation could result in a lot of chaos. The more agile mindset the team has - it’s going to be a lot easier to adopt and evolve around micro services

Choosing between platform agnostic and platform specific monitoring tools is a big decision. The easier it is to implement, the more tightly coupled it is to a cloud ecosystem

In my early days of career, when the APIs and REST was just hitting the market - we were methodical about traceability matrix and impact. Nowadays with agile implementation, the engineers have lost the (g)Olden practices from the past. Also, as we work in remote ecosystems more talking, brainstorming and looking inside must happen.

Security and Scalability are the two major challenges team run into . Few common mistakes include 1. Having a JWT tokeniser in the place of a service mesh for security 2. Lack of event based and horizontal scaling mechanisms

Decentralized data management needs to be a forethought for any microservice design & implementation. Teams need to consider streaming of data across services instead of tying down the whole architecture to a single data storage technology. This will allow for better performance with ability to choose suitable database technologies for specific applications.