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… and then you have to track versions in many places and test all of the various combinations yourself rather than having a third-party do it. Microservices have their advantages but they are not a magic wand for dependency management unless you’re using very little of a framework.

Edit to add: I would class an advantage of microservices if it made it easier for you to have automated tests or deployment/rollbacks, since that’s much more effective for this problem in my experience. I’ve seen people do that with monoliths and fail to do that with microservices so again, no magic wands.




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