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Changing one "shared library" shouldn't mean deploying 140 services immediately.

They had one service to begin with forked for each destination. Of course that was a nightmare to maintain!

I can see their reasoning though; most of those services are pretty straightforward I think (common data model in -> transform -> specific outbound API data out -> convert result back to common data model). The challenge they had is that a lot of the logic in each of those services could be reused (http, data transformation, probably logging / monitoring / etc), so shared libraries and such.

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