Justin McMurdie Breaks Apps Into Micro-Services

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

Most applications on the backend and the front end get built as a monolith, but you could improve your developer experience and performance if you broke your applications out into microservices.

The pros and cons are the same for monorepos and microservices. Microservices is a different paradigm. And so, there's a lot of training that goes involved for different people to understand the various deployment processes. The microservices system is slightly more complex in some ways, but on the pro side, you gain some performance benefits where you can scale up services by themselves.

A part of the improved developer experience is you get a better context of what you're working on. So say you need to fix a bug in the e-mail service. You don't have to dig through a mountain of code to find it. It's in the e-mail service.

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Homework

• Watch this single-spa intro video

Resources

• single-spa intro video
• single-spa
• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

Guest: Justin McMurdie

• Twitter: @justinmcmurdie
• Github: @TheMcMurder

Host: Kent C. Dodds

• Website: kentcdodds.com
• Twitter: @kentcdodds
• GitHub: @kentcdodds
• YouTube: Kent C. Dodds
• Epic React: epicreact.dev