Black Friday Load Handling with Microservices: Practical Comparison of Approaches

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Cut to the chase: Black Friday is not a test run. If you treat it like a bigger Tuesday, you will lose revenue, trust, or both. Microservices give you more control over scaling, but they also open more failure modes