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Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by LeZuse on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:24AM (#34244732)
There are so many misconceptions about what microservices are or what problems they are trying to solve. Most people don't even experience the problems (yet or ever) they are meant to solve and they go straight to micro. 5 person teams making 5 services to power their product :faceplam:. A relatively simple b2b web application without any serious traffic also does not need microservices to handle its load.

People just read up on whatever seems to be the newest, coolest thing. The issue is that MS articles are usually coming from FAANG/ex-FANNG. These companies are solving problems that 99% of others do not.

As engineers we should be looking for the most effective solutions to a given business problem. Sadly, I see engineers with senior/staff titles just throwing cool tech terms/libs around. Boring tech club ftw

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Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by jcmontx on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:29AM (#34247639)
> Boring tech club ftw

As a CTO, I couldn't agree more. For our internal product, we use 100% boring technologies. The most "modern" you'll find is a React SPA.

I sigh when clients want to go the microservices route for a team of just a few developers. When you want to use NextJs for their tables&forms app. When they choose to use Kubernates instead of a couple EC2 instances.

Don't get me wrong, these technologies are great for us because we can charge more for the wasted human time developing these overengineered solutions. But I always, for my peace of mind, try to talk them out of them. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, at the end of the day it's their money.

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