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Give a Preference to Micro Architecture!

Explore the distinction between micro and macro architecture principles and understand how minimal, well-enforced macro rules support team independence. This lesson helps you grasp strategies for maintaining flexibility while ensuring operational support for microservices through selective architecture governance.

Macro architecture decisions: Best practices and advice #

  • Specifying only a few points in the macro architecture helps with focusing. Many teams have failed when trying to implement a far-reaching unification in a complex project or IT landscape. If there are few macro architecture rules, the chances increase that the rules are actually successfully implemented.

  • The rules should be minimal.

    • For example, a macro
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