Overlooking availability, reliability, and scalability when designing a microservices architecture

As microservices architecture is distributed in nature and involves lots of services communicating over a network, reliability and availability, along with scalability, become important factors. Developers sometimes overlook the benefits of these factors and don't think outside the box to build an architecture that supports these concerns. In a microservices architecture, services have dependencies on other services and along with asynchronous communication, there is also synchronous communication, which requires the other service to be responsive at the time you're performing some operation or serving an end user request. If the service is not available, it affects the transaction. Moreover, when a service is experiencing a lot of traffic, it needs to be scaled out and if the underlying infrastructure does not support quick scaling, this will impact the operation and create...