Stephen Grider Microservices 🔖

No service is allowed to reach into another service’s database. But this creates a massive problem: How does the Orders Service know if a User exists?

Node.js with TypeScript for type safety across services. stephen grider microservices

While many tutorials focus on the "happy path" of microservices, Grider’s approach centers on the in a distributed environment. No service is allowed to reach into another

Before we can build, we must understand the problem we are solving. In a traditional monolithic architecture (like a standard Express.js app), every feature—users, orders, payments, notifications—lives in a single codebase connected to a single database. stephen grider microservices