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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by pc86 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @06:14PM (#37979571)
Of course you could, just like you could do this in 2000 less-well-defined microservices, or 8000 more finely-grained ones.

The question is what makes you think 1 service is immediately better than however many payment services there are now?

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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by lamontcg on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:49PM (#37981413)
All other things being equal, 1 service is obviously better than 4,000 services to maintain.
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:21AM (#37982195)
Not that obvious, how do you coordinate people from dozens of teams working on it?
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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by MichaelZuo on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:10AM (#37984534)
IBM managed to coordinate several hundred people on a single software product for decades on end.

Even Microsoft managed to do so for multiple products while also stack ranking the teams.

And I doubt there's a single service, even payments, that's as technically complex as Excel.

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Re:Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform runni... by lamontcg on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:29PM (#37987989)
Do you really have 4,000 teams working on payments?

And I'd agree with the other child comment that the monolith can always be broken into separate components which are owned by different teams.

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