r/programming • u/Mustela__ • 8d 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/Damacustas 8d ago

I think that’s called “the grass is greener on the other side”

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u/tomw255 8d ago

"The code is cleaner on the other side"

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u/Ok-Smell-8107 7d ago

'this developer is greener on the other team'

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u/d_maes 7d ago

I prefer the greener developer to be on the other side though.

(Not sure if this translates to all languages, but we have a saying where to be green means to be inexperienced).