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Microservices are one of those polarising concepts that technologists either love or hate. Splitting applications into autonomous units clearly has advantages, but larger service-based systems tend to struggle as the interactions between the services grow. At the core of this sits a dichotomy: Data systems are designed to make data as accessible as possible. Services, on the other hand, actively encapsulate. These two forces inevitably compete in the architectures we build. By understanding this dichotomy
