Cross-Service

Adjective · Development

Definitions

  1. Describing workflows, dependencies, or changes that involve multiple services working together instead of remaining inside one service boundary. Cross-service behavior often raises concerns around latency, ownership, observability, and failure handling.

    In plain English: Spanning more than one service.

    Example: "The team added cross-service tracing because checkout failures were impossible to diagnose from single-service logs alone."

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