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Re:Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices by john_the_writer on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:30AM (#40030139)
The problem with that. Maintenance. Team X writes a micorservice in Node. Team A->W write in elixir. Bug in Micro_X and tada... company is screwed. No one wants to learn Node, so the bugs stay around, get worked around and then Micro_X gets re-written in elixir, because coders have to fix stuff.
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Re:Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices by thesnide on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:18AM (#40030334)
That is painfully accurate. My usual response to it is https://despair.com/products/break-the-rules

It usually gives me angry looks at first, but thanks after several years when there's enough turnover.

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Re:Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices by bobthepanda on Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:23PM (#40033635)
Terrible engineering is also possible in the monolith, it’s just significantly harder to rewrite sour bits of monolith independently.
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