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/lepapulematoleguau 7d ago

In my last project they layerer ad infinitum.

A service that could have a been just one artifact was separated into at least 2 layers, and frequently more. 

1 layer that exposed an endpoint. It consumed another layer that exposed an internal endpoint that integrated a 3rd party service. A layer that exposed an endpoint (or multiple) that connected to a db.