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A microservice is a component of software that is independent of the larger system. This enables a developer to spend the weekend rewriting critical system functionality as a passion project without risking total system collapse. Resulting in potentially usably incongruent abominations within the wider system. Ensuring that said developer has job security, in being the only one that understands a small but crucial part of the system.
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