Trends in Version Control Land: Microservices

This post introduces microservices architecture as a trend, defining it as designing software applications as smaller, independent, cloud-based services. It details the benefits (system-wide stability, scaling teams, diverse technology, improved architecture) and drawbacks (latency, distributed system complexity, three-step rollouts, accommodating failure modes, infrastructure complexity, multiple projects). It then explains how GitLab's integrated platform helps manage microservices by providing pre-configured CI/CD, issue tracking, and group-level management, reducing the need for external integrations and simplifying coordination. The post concludes by suggesting microservices are right for teams spending too much time coordinating, especially with more than 25 backend developers.