Addressing microservices challenges – insights from a seasoned architect

Harshal Bhavsar, a Senior Architect at Wipro, discusses the challenges of managing microservices-based architectures, emphasizing the accumulation of technical debt and the complexity introduced by distributed systems. He identifies common issues such as lack of awareness, insufficient reviews, and knowledge gaps that contribute to technical debt, which often goes unnoticed until it becomes a significant problem. Bhavsar highlights the role of modern tools like vFunction in mitigating these challenges by providing insights and governance to maintain architectural integrity, automate architectural governance, and support best practices. The post outlines specific problems faced by microservices architectures, such as handling increased traffic, inter-service communication overhead, increased latency due to long service chains, and lack of architectural governance. Bhavsar recommends using vFunction to refactor legacy systems, optimize cloud costs, analyze communication patterns, and enforce architectural rules to ensure robust, scalable, and business-aligned microservices architectures. Continuous learning and adaptation are emphasized as key to maintaining architectural excellence.