Re:The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
by lmm on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:05AM
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> Do you legit think that people are all just doing this as a fad?
Yes. That's been my experience.
> The idea that the existing code base could have problems shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Amazon almost fell over because of their code base. Twitter too.
Most organisations aren't Amazon. Most organisations aren't Twitter. And even these web-scale organisations aren't as all-in as the microservice advocates. (I worked at last.fm for a time and while we did many things that could be classed as "microservices" from a certain perspective, we didn't blindly "microservice all the things")
> "Microservices as mass delusion" discounts a lot of people who are really thinking hard about how to handle the pros and the cons of things.
Most fads start from a core of sensible design. The web really did revolutionise commerce, but many "x, but on the web" companies of the late '90s really were dumb.
Yes. That's been my experience.
> The idea that the existing code base could have problems shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Amazon almost fell over because of their code base. Twitter too.
Most organisations aren't Amazon. Most organisations aren't Twitter. And even these web-scale organisations aren't as all-in as the microservice advocates. (I worked at last.fm for a time and while we did many things that could be classed as "microservices" from a certain perspective, we didn't blindly "microservice all the things")
> "Microservices as mass delusion" discounts a lot of people who are really thinking hard about how to handle the pros and the cons of things.
Most fads start from a core of sensible design. The web really did revolutionise commerce, but many "x, but on the web" companies of the late '90s really were dumb.