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I feel like a lot of microservice advocates fail to price in the overhead introduced when you split stuff up into multiple independent communicating units.

Example: Replacing a simple database query (effectively instant) and relaying the data as a local variable, with poking a seperately hosted microservice which ends up adding 20ms of overhead doing a HTTPS request, encoding and de-encoding the result in JSON, etc.



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