Extracting microservices as a surgeon

Ananth Ramachandran
6 min readNov 21, 2021

“Surgeons should consider not only how to operate, but if they should operate.”

— Benjamin Carson

Microservices has become the de facto for building distributed systems. It would be a lot easier to build it from scratch. But that’s not the case most of the time, as monolithic systems will be built first and microservices will be carved out down the line.

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