CQRS is probably the cause of the Microservices madness

Reads and Writes don’t have to live in the same database, data model or even the same service. Let us discuss CQRS no separation one service that does read/write partial separation You can keep one service but backend have multiple connections with different users same database full separation Read services / write services two databases OLAP / OLTP Pros scalability security Cons complex and very hard to follow, what we see with microservices.. resources https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2010/02/16/cqrs-task-based-uis-event-sourcing-agh/