Potentially heterogeneous/polyglot

There is no single solution for everything in software development. It's a phrase I've heard a few times and it's the truth. A very interesting feature of a well-composed microservice is the possibility of a microservice with completely different technology from another microservice. This heterogeneous strand of microservices gives the total engineering team the ability and freedom to seek the most appropriate solution to a problem.

With multilingual microservices, it is important to understand that there is an increase of complexity with regards to deploy and stack maintenance. However, the compensation provided by the heterogeneous applications is very valuable.

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