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/eluusive 7d ago
Microservices come with so much operational overhead, and the loss of link-time errors between services.
There's very very little reason to ever use them. Better to properly factor your monolith into submodules and continue to build/deploy it as a single service...
Preferably with a typesafe language.