Storage is a microservice
last updated: Sep 24, 2024
I want to touch briefly on something that came up in both videos: "microservices must have their own databases."
Something recently clicked for me (thanks to couchdb) – it's not that microservices must have their own storage, it's that storage is a microservice in its own right, and we're trying to encapsulate its interface using another service to "cover" it