HOW TO SALVAGE A "MICROSERVICE" SYSTEM BUILT THE WRONG WAY (REDDIT THREAD)

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This author is part of a team that built microservices the “wrong way” where everything depends on everything else and thus it's too difficult to make architectural changes. Commenters give their recommendations, such as collapsing the system to an actual monolith if possible and turning remote calls to local calls.