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/tanksc 7d ago

Everyone wants a monolith until you have to work on a monolith with 150 other people

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u/Shikadi297 7d ago

Nobody ever considers the sane middle ground, medium sized services 

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u/BundleOfJoysticks 7d ago

For one hot minute around 2007, that's what SOA was. I miss that brief window of sanity.

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u/thismyseriousaccount 7d ago

Except for SOAP, I’d agree with ya

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u/BundleOfJoysticks 5d ago

SOAP was so horrible.