Re:TeamTopologies
by ecshafer on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:58AM
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I disagree, microservices at their core were not a good idea, they were missing the forest from the trees.
Micro services are an attempted solution for having highly bespoke infrastructure that required difficult, long, manual, fragile deployments that were high risk, and thus didn’t happen often and delayed business value. The problem was that they saw that issue and thought it was monolithic applications, not just having bad infrastructure. 99% of the benefits of devops with almost none of the drawbacks are done by having all of the standard dev ops stuff like Cicd, containers, software defined infra, etc and just doing it on the normal monolith.
Eventually you do need to break things up, but the micro services single functionality, single team per service type of micro services goes way to far and harms more than it helps.
Micro services are an attempted solution for having highly bespoke infrastructure that required difficult, long, manual, fragile deployments that were high risk, and thus didn’t happen often and delayed business value. The problem was that they saw that issue and thought it was monolithic applications, not just having bad infrastructure. 99% of the benefits of devops with almost none of the drawbacks are done by having all of the standard dev ops stuff like Cicd, containers, software defined infra, etc and just doing it on the normal monolith.
Eventually you do need to break things up, but the micro services single functionality, single team per service type of micro services goes way to far and harms more than it helps.