What is a bounded context in microservices?
A feature with clear boundaries that can be extracted independently. Auth, payments, or notifications are good because they are self-contained. Pick something stable, not the part changing every week.
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Use the strangler fig pattern. Pick a bounded context, extract it into a service with its own database, route traffic to it, and delete the old code from the monolith. Repeat.
Big-bang rewrites freeze the product for months and risk failure. The strangler fig pattern lets you ship each step independently and roll back if needed.
No. Each service should own its data. Sharing databases couples services and defeats the purpose. Sync data with events or do a one-time migration.
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