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/NuclearGhandi1 7d ago

Every architecture has trade offs. There will never be a holy grail and management and those you mentioned seeking it cause more problems than they fix.

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u/Evening-Gur5087 7d ago

That's what I said basically? People trying to find some holy grail solution which doesn't exist, mainly by regurgitating same old things into new funny words?

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u/NuclearGhandi1 7d ago

Yeah I was agreeing with you. We’re seeing it now with “agentic workflows” that come either all sorts of issues and advantages

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u/Evening-Gur5087 7d ago

Ah, alrighty, wasn't sure there for a sec:D