r/microservices is a subreddit with 23k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses microservices, architecture, api, design, and security.
Dedicated reddit to discuss Microservices
Popular Themes in r/microservices
#1
Advice Requests
: "I Tried 20+ Microservices Courses with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud- Here Are My Top 7 Recommendations"
10 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Picking the Right Consistency Model for Microservices Architecture"
8 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Building a tool for truly reusable backend components — define connections/infra once, reuse across projects. Looking for feedback"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source microservice backend around Twitter/X-style feed architecture"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/microservices
#1
Microservices
: "How are you coordinating workflows across Microservices?"
165 posts
#2
Architecture
: "Picking the Right Consistency Model for Microservices Architecture"
72 posts
#3
Api
24 posts
#4
Design
: "Contributing to Apache Seata: Fixing Saga StateMachine Designer Export & Download Issues"
24 posts
#5
Security
: "Multi-vendor Application Security and Performance Reference Architecture · Cloudflare Reference Architecture docs"
12 posts
#6
System Design
12 posts
#7
Backend
: "Modularity in your Backend systems"
11 posts
#8
Distributed
: "Looking for feedback on a Distributed systems learning tool I've been building"
8 posts
#9
Java
8 posts
#10
Scaling
: "When Architecture Diagrams Stop Scaling"
6 posts
Flair Used in r/microservices
#1
Discussion/Advice
: "How to fetch data "owned" to another microservice?"
72 posts
#2
Article/Video
: "I Read 20+ Software Architecture Books - Here Are My Top 7 Recommendations for Senior Developers"
71 posts
#3
Tool/Product
: "I built a food delivery platform with 7 microservices to learn microservice architecture — here's what I learned"
28 posts
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Yearly
+4k members(21.7%)
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Last updated: August 4, 2026