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> Note also, that microservices experts (and I'm not one of those) recommend a monolithic and transactional core architecture, for microservices infrastructure.

This is a pithy encapsulation of something I've been thinking a lot about recently: bud off a microservice from your transactional core if it is higher leverage to do so. Any good readings you've found on this perspective?

An example that comes to mind is: I might write my core application in Ruby on Rails, but need to perform a specialized, CPU-intensive function (PDF generation). I can delegate that to a microservice, invert a CPU-bound problem into an I/O bound one (from the perspective of the Rails core), and get the job done with less hardware.