https://www.davidlang.tech/tags/microservices/ Recent content in Microservices on David Lang Hugo en Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.davidlang.tech/posts/building-microservices-with-nodejs/ Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.davidlang.tech/posts/building-microservices-with-nodejs/ <p>Microservices split a system into independently deployable services. Node.js is a common choice for I/O-bound services, BFF layers, and event-driven workers.</p> <h2 id="service-boundaries">Service Boundaries</h2> <p>Split by business capability-not by technical layer. A <code>orders</code> service owns order data; a <code>notifications</code> service sends email. Communicate via REST, gRPC, or message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka).</p> <h2 id="resilience-patterns">Resilience Patterns</h2> <p>Implement timeouts, retries with exponential backoff, and circuit breakers. Use correlation IDs across services for distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry).</p>