Service Boundaries & Decomposition Strategies — Roadmap Step & Resour…
Decomposing a system by business capability or subdomain rather than technical layer
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: System Architecture
Before this step
Mini projects
- Propose a service decomposition for a ride-sharing platform, justified by bounded contexts
Interview questions
- What signals tell you a service boundary is drawn in the wrong place?
Study resources
- Pattern: Decompose by Business Capability (Article) — Chris Richardson's microservices.io pattern catalog entry on service decomposition strategies.
- How to Decompose a Monolith into Microservices (Video) — A practical explanation of finding the right service boundaries.
Part of
- Service-Oriented & Microservices Architecture — section
- System Architecture roadmap — the full learning path