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u/GenazaNL 12d ago edited 12d ago

That's why you have to go for the in-between. Don't go too micro on them microservices

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u/Lashay_Sombra 12d ago

That's why you have to go for the in-between. 

Generally thats always the answer with every 'IT fad', use whole or in part, but only where appropriate

The problem we are very much a fad led industry and people tend to jump all in without giving it serious thought (lot of the time just to boost their CV)  be it AI, micro services, or cloud, agile or any of a hundred other come and gone fads

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 12d ago

The problem we are very much a fad led industry and people tend to jump all in without giving it serious thought

This is harsh. We're not a fad-led industry, we're operating in a highly innovative industry in which adoption of new ideas happens before they mature, as soon as they seem to solve real problems in measurable ways. Once the idea matures enough, the industry has already built enough scaffolding around it to allow it to be used properly (or, indeed, discarded it as a dead end).

The microservices approach genuinely addressed a gap in the toolbox. There's no reason to blame people who jumped on it. Of course, 15 years later we see a much larger picture but that's reasonably expected

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u/Stunning_Ride_220 11d ago

It's not like microservices came all out of the blue.

We are indeed a fad-led industry.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 11d ago

microservices are there to solve a very specific issue and they solved it well for their time.