Why Separate Databases? Explaining Like You're Five

Microservices emphasized using separate databases for each service. But is that really helpful? It causes a lot of extra complexity. In the example of e-commerce, you likely want to the customer and order data together so you can query it easily. That sounds like reasonable but there is more at play on when and why you might want to separate data. 🔗 Kurrent (formely EventStoreDB) https://kurrent.io 🔔 Subscribe:    / @codeopinion   💥 Join this channel to get access to a private Discord Server and any source code in my videos. 🔥 Join via Patreon   / codeopinion   ✔️ Join via YouTube    / @codeopinion   📝 Blog: https://codeopinion.com 👋 Twitter:   / codeopinion   ✨ LinkedIn:   / dcomartin   📧 Weekly Updates: https://mailchi.mp/63c7a0b3ff38/codeo... 0:00 3rd Party 2:06 Large System 5:38 Alignment