Decompose systems into microservices and apply canonical distributed-systems patterns. Use this skill whenever the user wants to split a monolith into services, design service boundaries, choose between microservices and a modular monolith, implement sagas or the outbox pattern, set up CQRS or event sourcing, configure an API gateway or BFF, add resilience (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts), or implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry. Also trigger for distributed transactions…
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# Microservices Patterns
Microservices split a system into small, independently deployable services, each owned by one team and owning its own data. The value is organizational: independent deploys, independent scaling, and a contained blast radius — but every one of those wins comes with a distributed-systems tax: cross-service consistency, partial failure, and contract drift. This skill is the playbook for paying that tax deliberately: deciding whether decomposition is warranted, finding the boundaries, and applying the canonical patterns for communication, consistency, resilience, observability, testing, and deployment.
## Quick Reference
| Topic | Reference |
|-------|-----------|
| Sagas, compensating actions, and the outbox pattern | [saga-outbox.md](references/saga-outbox.md) |
| Timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, load shedding | [resilience-patterns.md](references/resilience-patterns.md) |
| Structured logs, RED metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, health probes | [observability-tracing.md](references/observability-tracing.md) |
## Core Workflow
Use this sequence whenever you are architecting or re-architecting toward microservices:
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