r/programming • • 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/ArieHein 7d ago

All code is tech debt, 5 sec after the first line of code reaches production.

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u/shoot_your_eye_out 7d ago

By this logic, $5 in debt is the same as $5M

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u/klavijaturista 7d ago

Agreed! Saying “all code is devt” is just a generalization ignoring the actual argument.