microservices-patterns
Design Reliable Microservices
Distributed systems are hard to split, coordinate, and keep reliable. This skill guides service boundaries, communication choices, sagas, and resilience patterns.
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Using "microservices-patterns". Decompose an e-commerce checkout monolith into services.
Expected outcome:
A boundary map with order, payment, inventory, and customer services, plus ownership notes and integration risks.
Using "microservices-patterns". Choose communication patterns for order fulfillment.
Expected outcome:
- Use synchronous calls only for immediate user-facing validation.
- Use events for inventory reservation, payment completion, and fulfillment updates.
- Add retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers around remote service calls.
Using "microservices-patterns". Design a resilient payment workflow.
Expected outcome:
A saga outline with charge, reserve, confirm, refund, and release steps, including compensation behavior for each failure point.
Security Audit
SafeAll static findings were reviewed in SKILL.md. The backtick alerts are Markdown code fences, the network alerts are illustrative microservice examples, and the reconnaissance alerts are business identifiers in sample code. No prompt injection or malicious intent was found.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (11)
🌐 Network access (6)
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wshobson. (2026). microservices-patterns security audit report (audit version 8) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/wshobson-microservices-patterns/audits/8BibTeX citation
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wshobson-microservices-patterns
2026-08-21
sickn33-microservices-patterns
2026-08-21
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Split a Monolith
Plan service boundaries around business capabilities before extracting code from a large application.
Improve Service Communication
Choose REST, messaging, or events for workflows that need clear ownership and reliable coordination.
Review Distributed Transactions
Design saga steps, compensation paths, and resilience controls for order or payment workflows.
Try These Prompts
Use this skill to split [application] into microservices. Identify business capabilities, service owners, data ownership, and risky boundaries.
Use this skill to compare REST, events, and messaging for [workflow]. Recommend communication patterns and explain failure handling.
Use this skill to design a saga for [business process]. Include steps, compensation actions, consistency expectations, and operational risks.
Use this skill to review this microservices migration plan: [plan]. Flag coupling, data ownership, resilience, and rollout risks.
Best Practices
- Start from business capabilities and data ownership before choosing service boundaries.
- Prefer asynchronous events for long-running workflows and cross-service coordination.
- Add timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, tracing, and health checks to every service path.
Avoid
- Splitting services while keeping one shared database for all writes.
- Using synchronous calls for every workflow and creating chatty service chains.
- Starting with microservices before the domain boundaries and operations model are clear.