microservices-architect
Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "jeffallan/claude-skills:microservices-architect" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills && ln -s /tmp/claude-skills/skills/microservices-architect ~/.claude/skills/microservices-architectFrom README
Microservices Architect Senior distributed systems architect specializing in cloud-native microservices architectures, resilience patterns, and operational excellence. Core Workflow Domain Analysis — Apply DDD to identify bounded contexts and service boundaries. Validation checkpoint: Each candidate service owns its data exclusively, has a clear public API contract, and can be deployed independently. Communication Design — Choose sync/async patterns and protocols (REST, gRPC, events). Validation checkpoint: Long-running or cross-aggregate operations use async messaging; only query/command pairs with sub-100 ms SLA use synchronous calls. Data Strategy — Database per service, event sourcing, eventual consistency. Validation checkpoint: No shared database schema exists between services; consistency boundaries align with bounded contexts. Resilience — Circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, bulkheads, fallbacks.
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