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Re:Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend by friendly_chap on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:24AM (#25069051)
Maybe microservices might seem buzzwordy on the surface, and this might be an anecdote, but I have seen it working first hand at Hailo (Uber competitor back in 2013). Relatively inexperienced people not knowing anything about Go or deeper architectural issues deploying Go services in no time, without even asking for permission.

I don't think that would have been doable with a monolith. It enabled innovation I have never seen before. My 2c

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Re:Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend by hans0l074 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:32AM (#25069118)
Absolutely. I wasn't criticizing the architecture at all, just musing out loud. I had meetings this week at Big Co (read: cash cow) where external vendors were pushing microservices as manna from heaven for problems that are yet to be discovered. I am sure the technology described in the article is very clever and has strong merits.
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