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Sep 13, 2026 · Backend Development

Microservice Governance: Service Split Extremes, Debt Triage & Strangler Fig Refactoring

This article analyzes two extremes of microservice splitting—overly coarse services that become monoliths and overly fine services that explode call chains—details a three-tier technical debt classification (P0/P1/P2), and presents a four-step Strangler Fig Pattern for zero-downtime progressive refactoring based on real e-commerce production experience.