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by andrewprock 185 days ago
The whole point of micro-services is to manage dependencies independently across service boundaries, using the API as the contract, not the internal libraries.

Then you can implement a service in Java, Python, Rust, C++, etc, and it doesn't matter.

Coupling your postgres db to your elasticsearch cluster via a hard library dependency impossibly heavy. The same insight applies to your bespoke services.