Designing Clojure Microservices

Welcome to designing Clojure microservices! Let's start by understanding what microservices are.

A microservice is a small, independent service that runs in its own process and communicates with other services, often via lightweight mechanisms like HTTP APIs.

Key characteristics:

• Small & Focused: Each service handles a specific business capability.
• Independent: Can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.
• Loosely Coupled: Changes in one service ideally don't break others.

Microservices offer several compelling advantages:

• Scalability: Scale individual services based on demand, not the entire application.
• Resilience: Failure in one service is less likely to bring down the whole system.
• Technology Diversity: Teams can choose the best tech stack for each service.
• Faster Development: Smaller codebases are easier to understand and develop.

However, they also introduce complexity in operations and distributed data management.