Do microservices cost more to run?
Often yes, due to the overhead of multiple deployments, API gateways, service discovery, monitoring, and CI/CD. The cost is justified by scale and team autonomy, not by small projects.
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Independent deployments, independent scaling, team autonomy, fault isolation, and tech flexibility. Each service can be deployed, scaled, and owned independently.
Complexity, network calls instead of function calls, distributed data consistency, harder debugging, and operational overhead. You need a real DevOps setup to run them.
A single request can hit multiple services. Tracing it requires distributed tracing and central logs. You cannot just set a breakpoint in one process and step through everything.
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