Re:Why Twilio Segment Moved from Microservices Back to a Mon...
by pdimitar on Sunday December 14, 2025 @10:59AM
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I am not selling you anything so you're starting off from a wrong premise.
What I said is that you should consider your experience prone to a bubble environment and as such it's very anecdotal. So is mine (a mix), granted. Which only means that neither extreme dominates out there. Likely a normal bell curve distribution.
What I did say (along with others) was that a little bit of technical discipline -- accentuating on "little" here -- nullifies the stated benefits of microservice architecture.
And it seems to me that the microservice architecture was chosen to overcome organizational problems, not technical ones.
What I said is that you should consider your experience prone to a bubble environment and as such it's very anecdotal. So is mine (a mix), granted. Which only means that neither extreme dominates out there. Likely a normal bell curve distribution.
What I did say (along with others) was that a little bit of technical discipline -- accentuating on "little" here -- nullifies the stated benefits of microservice architecture.
And it seems to me that the microservice architecture was chosen to overcome organizational problems, not technical ones.