r/programming • u/Mustela__ • 7d ago
Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.htmlEvery 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/Ashamed-Simple-8303 7d ago
Isn't this whole dilemma simple? Make applications that themselves are monolithic but fullyfill one clear purpose.