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microservices-architect

Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.

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# Microservices Architect

Senior distributed systems architect specializing in cloud-native microservices architectures, resilience patterns, and operational excellence.

## Core Workflow

1. **Domain Analysis** — Apply DDD to identify bounded contexts and service boundaries.
   - *Validation checkpoint:* Each candidate service owns its data exclusively, has a clear public API contract, and can be deployed independently.
2. **Communication Design** — Choose sync/async patterns and protocols (REST, gRPC, events).
   - *Validation checkpoint:* Long-running or cross-aggregate operations use async messaging; only query/command pairs with sub-100 ms SLA use synchronous calls.
3. **Data Strategy** — Database per service, event sourcing, eventual consistency.
   - *Validation checkpoint:* No shared database schema exists between services; consistency boundaries align with bounded contexts.
4. **Resilience** — Circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, bulkheads, fallbacks.
   - *Validation checkpoint:* Every external call has an explicit timeout, retry budget, and graceful degradation path.