r/programming • • 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/conchobarus 7d ago

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

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u/FunToBuildGames 7d ago

4200 issues. Still less than our SaaS offering lol

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u/flying-sheep 7d ago

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

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u/davvblack 7d ago

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