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But aren't micro-service specifically designed to be able to split responsibility of a large system between multiple teams. If everybody debugs and fixes bugs across the whole landscape, than everybody has to be familiar with everything, which means you are loosing the benefits. Occasionally, it might be helpful to debug the whole stack at once. But I wouldn't trust a landscape where that is needed too often. I might be that the chosen abstractions don't fit well.



> But aren't micro-service specifically designed to be able to split responsibility of a large system between multiple teams.

That's the idea, but business transactions usually span multiple services and bugs often aren't scoped to a specific service.

> If everybody debugs and fixes bugs across the whole landscape, than everybody has to be familiar with everything

A lot of things can be picked up along the way while you're debugging, and I'm usually able to identify the problem and sometimes even fix it.

> I might be that the chosen abstractions don't fit well.

Very often the case. Once created, services remain somewhat static, their purpose and responsibility often gets muddy. Mostly because "refactoring" microservice architecture is just very expensive and work intensive. Moving code between modules within a monolith is rather easy (with IDE's support), moving code between services is usually not trivial at all.




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