Overview
Microservices architecture splits an application into small, independently deployable services — each one owning a single piece of business logic, like payments or notifications — instead of one large codebase. Services communicate over APIs or message queues rather than sharing a database.
Why it matters
A monolith is faster to build on day one but gets harder to change safely as a team and codebase grow — one bug can bring down the whole app, and every deploy touches everything. Microservices let teams ship and scale parts of a system independently, at the cost of more infrastructure to monitor and coordinate.
How Dotcode applies it
We draw service boundaries around actual business domains, not convenience, and we only recommend microservices when the project’s scale genuinely justifies the added complexity.
