Guide
Decoding Microservices: Best Practices Handbook for Developers
The March 2022 Camunda handbook provides developers with practical best practices for building and operating microservices successfully. It explains how to avoid common pitfalls such as creating a distributed monolith and stresses the importance of aligning each microservice with a clear business domain. The guide discusses when to use choreography versus orchestration and how to balance the two effectively. It also covers designing fault‑tolerant services that handle failure gracefully, building security in from the start, and ensuring each microservice manages its own data. Finally, it emphasizes observability and monitoring as essential to maintaining reliability, scalability, and long‑term success in microservices‑based architectures.
