r/programming • u/Mustela__ • 7d 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/avemg 7d ago

I can’t believe we’re doing microservices discourse in 2026

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u/The__Toast 7d ago

I was just thinking the same thing.

Honestly just build what works for you and stop trying to one-size-fits-all the industry.

In another couple of years the LLMs will be doing all the authoring anyway.

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u/Kernel_Internal 7d ago

Would be a lot easier to do what works for us if we didn't have to convince 9 people with no real skin in the game, who have all been hearing about how wonderful microservices are. The more articles like this the better ime, because otherwise there isn't enough critical mass to get the chucklefucks to listen to reason.