What Agentic Workflows Mean to Microservices Developers

Microservices changed how we build software by breaking systems into composable, independently deployable units. But as systems scale, so does the cognitive and operational load on developers — tracking dependencies, debugging across services, and managing deployments. We’re hitting diminishing returns.

Enter agentic workflows: systems where autonomous agents interpret goals, plan actions, and execute tasks using the available tools. Interestingly, for microservices developers, those tools are often existing services already deployed in…