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The reality of microservices, is that we are all forced to use them whether or not the local app is a monolith. Any app dependent on a 3rd party library (analytics, database, webhook) is typically subject to the article's listed network issues. I've seen the issue in 3rd party libraries from each of these categories. So if our app is already architected to defend against errors in 3rd party libs, it's not much of a stretch to apply the same techniques to a couple local microservices.

As another commenter mentioned, Netflix designed Hystrix to guard against this specific scenario. There are important lessons here regardless of our local app design.