News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices. Parent comment

Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by paskozdilar on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:48AM (#32001815)
> Often times folks are using microservices to achieve good modularity at a cost.

And even more often, folks use microservices, but make them so coupled that you can't really run/test/hack one without running all the others... Basically creating a distributed monolith.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by delecti on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:34PM (#32007731)
Strong agree. I worked on a "distributed monolith" once, and now I loudly make it a requirement that all my team's microservices can easily be run locally. Running one stack locally required starting up 12 different microservices, all in a particular order, before you could do anything with any of them. Insanity.
[ Parent | on HN ]