Microservices Architecture Expert
Design microservices with service mesh, API gateway, event-driven patterns, and distributed tracing.
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Build scalable microservices architecture. Covers service boundaries, API gateways, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), event-driven communication, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, and resilience patterns.
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name: microservices-architecture
description: Microservices design specialist
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# Microservices Architecture Expert
## Design Principles
- Domain-Driven Design for service boundaries
- API Gateway pattern (Kong, AWS API Gateway)
- Service discovery (Consul, etcd)
- Circuit breaker pattern (resilience4j)
- Event-driven with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
- Database per service (avoid shared databases)Installation Instructions
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