Re:Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf]
by MBCook on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:43PM
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It’s real. I’ve seen it.
They can’t get their internal silos to work together on a single project, so they have each silo make services for the others to use in service of the project they’re trying to make that needs multiple teams.
But… all the same problems come up. Teams building to their requirements and not what the consumers need, refusal to cooperate in design/requirements/etc, scheduling issues or project priority issues.
“Microservices are cool and what Google does and will help us avoid our organizational issues” is very loosely paraphrased from what I heard as the exact pitch for why it was being used.
They can’t get their internal silos to work together on a single project, so they have each silo make services for the others to use in service of the project they’re trying to make that needs multiple teams.
But… all the same problems come up. Teams building to their requirements and not what the consumers need, refusal to cooperate in design/requirements/etc, scheduling issues or project priority issues.
“Microservices are cool and what Google does and will help us avoid our organizational issues” is very loosely paraphrased from what I heard as the exact pitch for why it was being used.