Red flag in your architecture: Your "microservices" all share the same database. What you actually have: - A distributed monolith with network latency added for free - Schema changes that require coordinating deployments across 8 services - One slow query in Service A that kills performance for Services B through G - Connection pool exhaustion that cascades across services you thought were independent - All the complexity of microservices with none of the benefits Sharing a database between microservices doesn't make them micro. It makes them a monolith that's harder to debug.