Are you ready to run microservices?
Microservices punish teams that aren't operationally ready. Score your readiness across the capabilities that actually decide whether services help or hurt — and see exactly which gaps to close first.
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Gaps to close
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Book a Build AuditWhat microservices readiness actually means
The hardest part of microservices isn't the architecture — it's the operations. Before adopting microservices you need a platform that can carry many independently deployed, independently failing services. That readiness is mostly operational maturity: automated CI/CD, trustworthy tests, reproducible builds, observability, centralized logging, a real on-call and incident process, infrastructure as code, and clear team ownership of bounded contexts. This microservices checklist scores those prerequisites so you know whether to split now or strengthen the platform first.
If you're missing several capabilities, every new service multiplies manual work and blind spots — and a modular monolith is your friend while you build the foundations. Use the readiness score below as a devops maturity assessment, then close the gaps it surfaces before you extract a single service.
| Capability | Why it's a prerequisite |
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| Automated CI/CD | Services only pay off if each one deploys independently — manual steps don't scale |
| Automated tests | Independent deploys are only safe when a green build is trustworthy |
| Reproducible builds | Containerized, identical runtimes prevent "works on my machine" across services |
| Observability | You can't debug a request that crosses services without tracing and metrics |
| Centralized logging | Many services emitting logs is unusable unless they're aggregated and searchable |
| Incident / on-call | More moving parts need alerting, on-call and runbooks before they break |
| Infrastructure as code | Each new service shouldn't be a manual environment setup |
| Service ownership | Teams must own bounded contexts and their data, or services blur back together |
FAQ
Are we ready for microservices?
You're ready when the operational foundations are in place: automated CI/CD per service, trustworthy automated tests, containerized reproducible builds, distributed tracing and centralized logging, a real on-call and incident process, infrastructure as code, and clear team ownership of bounded contexts. Missing several of these means microservices will add more pain than they remove — strengthen the platform first.
What do you need before adopting microservices?
The prerequisites are mostly operational, not architectural: independent automated deployments, observability that lets you trace a request across services, aggregated logs, alerting and on-call, and infrastructure provisioned from code. Without them, every new service multiplies manual work and blind spots.
Should we use a modular monolith instead?
Often yes, especially early. A modular monolith gives you clean internal boundaries and most of the design benefit without the operational tax of running many services. It also lets you build up the CI/CD, observability and on-call maturity you'll need, so that when a boundary genuinely needs to become a service, the split is cheap rather than a rewrite.