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How to decide when architectural complexity serves no one

My manager wants me to split our monolithic app into microservices but every service boundary I draw feels arbitrary and I cannot shake the feeling that I am creating problems we do not have yet.

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The pressure to adopt sophisticated patterns can override the wisdom of appropriate simplicity.

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