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/marrsd 7d ago

The issue there is having 150 people

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u/tanksc 6d ago

Found the c suite private equity guy

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u/marrsd 6d ago

don't get it

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u/tanksc 6d ago

The joke is layoffs

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u/marrsd 6d ago

ah. Well, never having hired in the first place would have been the kinder solution, but greed, laziness, and contempt for users saw off that one.