Things to consider before creating your microservice

In this section, we’re going to identify the distinct business capabilities that can be separated into individual microservices and define the boundaries of each microservice. Identifying microservices refers to the process of determining which components or functionalities within your application should be implemented as separate, independent microservices.

Here are the key steps to identify microservices:

1. Decompose by business capability: Start by understanding your application’s business domain. Identify distinct business capabilities or functionalities. Each business capability can often be a good candidate for a microservice. For example, user management, product catalog, order processing, and payment processing could be separate microservices.
2. Apply domain-driven design (DDD): DDD is a design approach that encourages modeling your application’s domain in a way that aligns with your business...