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And let’s face it - you are never going to get your own rollback logic right. There will be simply too many edge cases to worry and test.


Yes. That's why I'm amazed there isn't some Zookeeper ish system out there for supporting microservices.

The fact is that microservice tooling is in it's infancy, and shouldn't be used in production unless you're willing to roll your own everything. I worked at a place that tried to use microservices+event sourcing+CQRS, predictably a massive disaster.

I still think the monolith+distributed database will win out . I've never heard of a time when horizontal scaling was a problem not related to the databse




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