It’s 3:00 AM. Your pager duty alert triggers. The load balancer is throwing 502 Bad Gateway errors, but your logs show the Node.js process is technically “running.”
In the modern landscape of software engineering, “it works on my machine” is no longer the benchmark—it is barely the starting line. As we move through 2025, the cost of cloud computing continues to rise, and user tolerance for latency continues to drop. For Java developers, this creates a specific pressure: how do we squeeze every ounce of performance out of our microservices while maintaining maintainability?
Introduction # In the landscape of 2025, the debate between Monolith and Microservices has settled into a pragmatic understanding: Microservices are not a silver bullet, but they are essential for scaling teams and complexity.
