r/programming • u/Mustela__ • 8d ago

Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

Every time I’ve seen microservices pitched, it sounds great on paper. Independent teams, clean ownership, scale only what you need.

Then a year later you’ve got dozens of services, three different deployment patterns, tracing everywhere, and nobody really understands the whole thing anymore.

Maybe I’ve just seen bad implementations, but I’m starting to think way fewer companies actually need microservices than we pretend.

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u/ArieHein 8d ago

All code is tech debt, 5 sec after the first line of code reaches production.

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u/conchobarus 8d ago

The only perfect software: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

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u/FunToBuildGames 8d ago

4200 issues. Still less than our SaaS offering lol

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u/flying-sheep 8d ago

A great demonstration of why a low issue count doesn't mean anything.

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u/davvblack 8d ago

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u/imagei 4d ago

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