Microservices: Realizing the Benefits Without the Complexity

Microservices have emerged as the preferred approach for building and deploying applications on the cloud, offering increased reliability and addressing scale and latency concerns. However, microservices also introduce additional complexity and cognitive overhead for developers, such as cross-service coordination, shared states across multiple services, and coding and testing failure logic across disconnected services. To address these challenges, combining Temporal and MongoDB can simplify the implementation of service orchestration and data management in microservice architectures. This combination allows developers to build services that can easily handle a wide variety of data without having to manage caches or use multiple query languages. By using MongoDB's document model and Temporal's durable execution guarantees, developers can focus on implementing business logic rather than dealing with infrastructure complexities.