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Elon Musk set engineering Twitter ablaze (again) recently with his comment on Twitter’s backend problems: So what exactly is a microservice? Join 40K+ people getting more technical Subscribed Microservices (all hype aside) are a way of building your application as a series of small, interacting services instead of one giant bundle of code. All applications are made up of a bunch of interacting services: databases, API endpoints, the frontend, etc. Typically, these services all run together, on the same infrastructure, in the same codebase In a microservices based architecture, services are separated into smaller units that run independently Microservices help you scale more effectively and avoid downtime, but come with steep complexity costs A good percentage of bigger tech companies (think Google, Pinterest, Uber, etc.) have built their apps as a series of microservices, and it’s becoming a more popular design pattern for smaller teams as well. Buckle up, we’re bringing memes back. Be

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