Pros and cons of utilizing microservices
If microservices seem like a panacea at this point, we should also note that this approach does not come without its own set of issues. Whether the tradeoff is worth it or not depends heavily on an overall organizational approach.
As mentioned earlier, stability and error detection comprise a big production-level win for microservices. But if you think of the flip side of applications not breaking, it could also mean that issues go hidden for longer than they otherwise would. It's hard to ignore the entire site being down, but it could be hours before anyone realizes that e-mails have not been sent, unless some very robust logging is in place.
But there are other big pros to microservices. For one, utilizing ...
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