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System Architecture · Common pitfalls

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Common pitfalls

Common pitfalls

Jumping to microservices without operational readiness.
Ignoring data ownership boundaries between services.
Mixing synchronous calls with event-driven flows without clear SLAs.
Treating a monolith as a microservice without modular boundaries.
Missing API Gateway when services proliferate.
Forgetting tenant isolation in multi-tenant systems.
No distributed tracing in microservices (debugging nightmare).
CORS configuration duplicated across services.

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