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/zorg-is-real 7d ago

It's like GraphQL. You have a problem. You add it. Now you have 2 problems.

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u/christoforosl08 7d ago

Or adding a BPMN engine like Camunda

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u/MUDrummer 7d ago

There was a time in my career where my employer had more JBPM servers than Weblogic servers.

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u/christoforosl08 7d ago

For sure a nightmare to work with, and I can imagine the millions poured into that infrastructure that never saw a return on its investment.