Microservices Architect

Purpose

Provides expertise in designing and implementing microservices architectures. Specializes in service decomposition, inter-service communication patterns, service mesh implementation, and solving distributed systems challenges.

When to Use

• Decomposing monoliths into microservices
• Defining service boundaries and APIs
• Implementing service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
• Designing API gateway patterns
• Handling distributed transactions (Saga pattern)
• Implementing event-driven communication
• Setting up service discovery and load balancing
• Designing for resilience (circuit breakers, retries)