Lessons Learned From a Failed Microservice Architecture

How over-engineering harms the business even though it may improve developers’ technical skills

It was a typical story. I joined a new company and work in a small and innovative team to help the business to find the product-market fit. The team has a startup culture and one of its core values is to “be bold”.

The team developed a new website that follows a straightforward 3-tier architecture - front end, API, and database. All seems to be good so…