Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr...
by Tabular-Iceberg on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:40AM
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It’s true that factoring is something you can spend an unbounded amount of effort on, but it’s too unwieldy to always say factored “so well that there is no point working more on it because of diminishing returns”. So when you see “correctly”, read that as “so well that there is no point working more on it because of diminishing returns”.
Arguably that is what correct factoring is anyway, because it’s simply not correct in any way to fiddle with a piece of software without generating any real value for either the business objectives or the developers that have to work with it down the road.
When is shit ever factored "correctly"? Next week, your product owner will come over with a new idea for a feature spanning multiple modules and suddenly you will realize you should have factored your shit differently and maybe not split things up into multiple microservices prematurely.
So what I'm trying to say is: Grug is right. Factoring a piece of software correctly is one of the hardest issues. The assumption that you can do it correctly is the reason why so many microservice architectures are such a PITA to work with.