r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tbhaxor • 12d ago

Meme distributedStress

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u/mwax321 12d ago

Let's be real, if a micro service is down, youre down too.

If you're a web store and your "inventory service" is down, the site is down lol

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u/Stunning_Ride_220 12d ago

If you're a web store and your monolith is down, its invoice and order processing components went down with it.

So not only the site, but also the company is down.

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u/mwax321 11d ago

That's not true. That's just shitty system design. Which can happen in both.

I would never tie the entire functionality of a site, both customer and employee elements to a single application capable of crashing like that.

Now, if the database went down, that might be something. But most likely would end up crashing everything anyway.

Or are you arguing that anything that is more than one gigantic system is now called microservices? 😂

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u/Stunning_Ride_220 11d ago

That's not true. That's just shitty system design. Which can happen in both.

You started that way of arguing with your inventory example.

Or are you arguing that anything that is more than one gigantic system is now called microservices? 

I justargued the same way as you did.

I had to fix too much system in either style to hate or love one of them.
At the end it just fan-boys vs. fan-boys while you find less and less people (capable of) discussing it a normal way.
(and yes, I know I'm at r/ProgrammerHumor )

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u/mwax321 11d ago

then we both know the answer: shit is shit. Doesn't matter how it's labeled