Smart endpoints and Dumb Pipes has been one of the design principles for microservices during the last decade. Responsibility of the network is to just transfer messages between Source to Destination. Responsibility of microservices is to handle Business logic, transformation, validations, and process the messages.
The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a set of assumptions that developers make while designing Distributed Systems which might backfire and cause additional work and system redesign in the long run. Designing Distributed Systems is challenging and being aware of these eight fallacies will help you in architecting your systems better.
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