You Want Modules, Not Microservices

Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by jcadam on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:16PM (#34235362)

Reminds me of the time at a previous job where a poorly supervised engineer developed a complex application using LabVIEW (an utterly inappropriate use of the technology) and then took a new job with National Instruments, leaving a shop full of C and Ada programmers to maintain it.

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Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by lesuorac on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:34PM (#34235714)

If they wrote that using a bunch of LabVIEW microservices you could replace the services one-by-one with C/Ada until the whole thing was no longer LabVIEW.

This is generally what I think the best part about microservices are; an easy way to improve upon the MVP in any dimension. Re-writing a whole monolith can take forever and probably will introduce a ton of bugs. But incrementally re-writing microservices won't stop feature development and is easy to A/B test for correctness.

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Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by 8note on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:45PM (#34235927)

For the unfamiliar, National Instruments makes LabView

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