Microservices & Architecture

Microservices aren’t a goal—they’re a tool for managing complexity at scale. We help teams design service boundaries that align with their organization, implement patterns that handle the realities of distributed systems, and avoid the common pitfalls that turn microservices into distributed monoliths. Sometimes the right answer is fewer services, not more.

What We Do

Architecture Design

Service boundaries, API contracts, and data ownership that scale with your organization.

Distributed Systems Patterns

Sagas, event sourcing, CQRS, circuit breakers—the patterns that make distributed systems work.

API Design

REST, GraphQL, gRPC—APIs that are usable, evolvable, and documented.

Service Mesh

Istio, Linkerd, or cloud-native alternatives for service-to-service communication.

Legacy Decomposition

Breaking apart monoliths incrementally without stopping feature development.

Event-Driven Architecture

Kafka, Pub/Sub, event buses—decoupled systems that scale independently.

Architectural Patterns

Domain-Driven Design

Bounded contexts and aggregates that map to real business capabilities.

API-First Development

Contracts defined before implementation, enabling parallel development.

Observability

Distributed tracing, metrics, and logging that make complex systems debuggable.

Resilience Patterns

Retries, timeouts, bulkheads, and circuit breakers for graceful degradation.

How We Work

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Domain Mapping

Understanding your business capabilities and how they map to technical boundaries.

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Architecture

Designing service boundaries, contracts, and interaction patterns.

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Validation

Prototyping critical paths to validate architectural decisions before full commitment.

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Implementation

Building services, APIs, and infrastructure with your team.

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Operations

Observability, deployment automation, and operational practices for distributed systems.

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Documentation

Architecture decision records, API documentation, and operational runbooks.

When to Call Us

Your monolith is slowing you down

We'll help you identify which parts to extract and how to do it incrementally without stopping feature work.

You're starting something new that needs to scale

We'll design an architecture that's appropriately complex for your current stage with clear evolution paths.

Your microservices feel like a distributed monolith

We'll analyze your current architecture, identify coupling issues, and design a path to actual independence.

Teams are blocked on each other despite having separate services

We'll help you fix service boundaries, contracts, and ownership to restore autonomous delivery.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should we use microservices?

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Maybe. Microservices solve organizational scaling problems but add technical complexity. If you have a small team, a well-structured monolith is often better. We’ll help you make the right choice for your situation.

How do you handle data consistency across services?

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Distributed transactions are usually the wrong answer. We use patterns like sagas, eventual consistency, and event sourcing where appropriate—choosing the right consistency model for each use case.

What about service mesh—do we need it?

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Service mesh adds operational complexity. It’s valuable at scale for consistent observability, security, and traffic management. For smaller deployments, simpler approaches often work better. We’ll help you decide.

How do you handle service-to-service authentication?

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Usually with mutual TLS and service identity, often managed by your cloud provider or service mesh. We’ll design an approach that balances security with operational simplicity.