Drill
Six services on day one
A six-person team with its tooling ready wants microservices from the start. Choose how they begin, then the signal that would justify a split.
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What you'll be able to do
- 1Choose between a (modular) monolith and microservices for a team from its size, how well the domain is understood and which parts truly need to release, scale or fail separately.
- 2Choose whether a new product like Checkout should start as one deployable unit, and name the signals that would justify splitting it later.
Inside the lesson
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Step 1 · The setup
Six engineers, a brand-new gift-card shop in a domain none of them knows, automated deploys and monitoring already in place — and a plan for six microservices from day one.
Step 2 is for members