
Microservices and Devops ? What would Adam Smith think …
A sceptical look at when microservices and DevOps help, and when business complexity still calls for design-led architecture.
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Microservices, APIs, orchestration, choreography, business processes, and distributed system boundaries.
Microservices and APIs are useful patterns, but they are not universal answers.
These posts look at service boundaries, orchestration, choreography, business processes, data ownership, and the trade-offs that appear when distributed systems meet real organisations.

A sceptical look at when microservices and DevOps help, and when business complexity still calls for design-led architecture.

How GDPR changes the persistence choices behind microservices, especially when customer data needs shared governance and control.

How end-to-end business processes expose coordination challenges across microservices and enterprise systems.

How orchestration and choreography shape microservice coordination, and why the right pattern depends on business process integrity.