Why Our Microservice Overhaul Sparked Explosive Complexity—and What We Learned
A data‑service company migrated 20,000 customers to a microservice architecture, initially gaining visibility, lower deployment costs, and easier scaling, but later faced queue head blocking, shared‑library version chaos, load‑pattern challenges, and management overhead, ultimately prompting a return to a monolith with a new "Centrifuge" component.
