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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by mewpmewp2 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:05PM (#22194946)
In my experience it is a lot more difficult to navigate around all the different microservices to understand what needs to be done compared to being in a monolith where you can jump from file to file.

Also then what also happens is microservices are created using different languages which in turn adds so much complexity to understand what is going on on the whole big picture level.

And code gets repeated a lot more. If there is change in a microservices or update everyone will need to figure out what services depend on and how they will have to adapt. With monolith you can just use your IDE to see what will break if you make a change. So much repeated business logic. Creating a new feature involves having to have many meetings to figure out what services in which way have to be updated.

It is crazy mess in my opinion.

I have been with a company that had monolith application which they split up to more than 15 services (some python, some js, Scala, Java, etc...). Monolith still is used for some parts that are not migrated. I was working on single service having no idea how the whole system worked together. Then I had to do something in the old parts and I very quickly got an understanding how everything works together.

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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by james_s_tayler on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:41PM (#22197249)
>And code gets repeated a lot more. If there is change in a microservices or update everyone will need to figure out what services depend on and how they will have to adapt. With monolith you can just use your IDE to see what will break if you make a change. So much repeated business logic. Creating a new feature involves having to have many meetings to figure out what services in which way have to be updated.

This is what people mean when they say "distributed monolith" vs. microservices.

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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by tomc1985 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:18PM (#22198382)
I work on a monolith with a team experimenting in microservices and good lord do I hate it. The microservice represents a required step in our user flow, and due to the way we're set up I have to spin up my own private copy. Very often there have been configuration or API changes that were not communicated to me and so for the past few months that service have been broken and I've managed to avoid it for the most part. When I can't, I find it is faster to simply re-assign existing database records or simply bullshit them in a database editor rather than deal with the "why isn't the XXXXXXXXXXXX service working for me again?" flavor of the day

And holy fuck is debugging that stuff difficult. HUUUUUGE waste of time, but management looooooooooves their blasted microservices...

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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by NicoJuicy on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:36PM (#22195271)
Programming complexity is changed to devops complexity.

With microservices, without a good documentation how it connects, it's going to leave a very bad impression.

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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by mewpmewp2 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:48PM (#22195397)
Having to have that documentation, finding, reading, understanding and trusting it already adds so much overhead.

It is still nowhere close to ability to jumping around with IDE.

It might be in a different language, different design patterns and to get to the details you have to check out that project anyway because you can't document absolutely everything out of code base. And if you do you will end up with multiple sources of truth.

It is so much more likely that for every little issue which you otherwise might be able to find an answer to yourself very easily you will have to contact the team owning that microservices.

It is not only mentally exhausting. It is time consuming, it requires so much back and forth. It creates so much dependence on other people because figuring out how things are related is so much more difficult.

Sometimes I have 8 or more different IDE windows open to understand what is going on.

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