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Re:Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectu... by cam- on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @11:34PM (#9111210)
Front End teams tend not like micro services, there is too much overhead in getting too little data. As an example we integrate with one micro service where get back a boolean and and a date. We have the overhead of an http call and all the error handling that goes with it for two pieces of data which would be better aggregated into another service. We story point an integration with a new service as an 8, but adding a new field (or two) in an existing API data structure is a 1.

I hope micro services is not just a new fashion in software and is actually useful ten years from now.

Re:Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectu... by doktorn on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:10AM (#9117923)
It is by no means a new fashion. In an interview from 2006, Werner Vogels (CTO & VP of Amazon) talks about it. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142065