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Is it a common thing for "proper" microservices to have microservices retrieve data from other services via APIs?

I've worked on "microservices" systems before that do this. They were mostly shit.

The system I'm working on at the moment has each service subscribe to events and maintain its own database. The only comms is via events. It works pretty well and everything really is nicely separated, but it feels a bit haphazard.