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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by nine_zeros on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:12AM (#37975553)
How else would engineers demonstrate "impact" for promotions?

/s

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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by zrail on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:15AM (#37975580)
You jest but also you're not wrong.
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by nine_zeros on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:18AM (#37975609)
My own company has 800+ microservices. I am very familiar with the politics of microservices.
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by 0xblinq on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:21AM (#37975626)
Plot twist: the company has a total of 8 engineers and still not profitable.
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by thakoppno on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:02AM (#37975945)
My personal microservice fiefdom is about ten. My company probably has 1000. Is this ratio normal?
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by nine_zeros on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:50AM (#37976408)
Any more than 1 microservice per engineer (as in, 7 microservices for a 7 engineer team) is too much for engineers to handle during on-call incidents.

If management values business SLAs that is.

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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by mooreds on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:48AM (#37975830)
I worked at a SV startup (series A) for a while and an EM once mentioned struggling to keep the number of microservices under the number of engineers.
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by aitchnyu on Monday October 23, 2023 @01:15AM (#37981882)
Is there a compelling article about the ideal microservice to engineer ratio (ie less than 1.0)?
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by mooreds on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:25AM (#37984139)
I don't know of one, but this thread has some interesting discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/x1p5gj/my_...
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by wiseowise on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:10PM (#37979125)
Dysfunctional organizations lead to absurd solutions to absurd problems.
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