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4.Assign each microservice with a single responsibility

A microservice should encapsulate a single, well-defined business capability. This promotes independent deployment, scalability, and fault isolation, reducing the blast radius of failures and simplifying the codebase.

Single Responsibility PrincipleMicroservicesDomain-Driven DesignRESTgRPCKafkaEventual ConsistencyAPI GatewaySaga PatternLoose Coupling

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4.Assign each microservice with a single responsibility - System Design Diagram

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