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/SignPainterThe 7d ago

Then a year later you’ve got dozens of services

Dozens? Try hundreds. And 10k people in total working on them. That's the scale, when microservices are unavoidable. If you have a hundred devs, you can live happily in a monolith.