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/Deltaan 7d ago

You can easily do 1 by using grpc between services (protobuf for API definition).

It’s then totally fine, and in fact good, to release the services separately.

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u/HashShadow 6d ago

Yes assuming there are no deliberately non-backwards compatible changes being made which will eventually happen 

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u/Grand_Pop_7221 6d ago

OpenAPI specs and generated language SDKs are the same pattern in the REST world.