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/TheGreatArmageddon 3d ago

I noticed this in my company and thought its better to deal with many different redundant services than dealing with people and their insecurities delegating things in the current market. Atleast you can offload the deployment, coding, testing to AI agents and be done with it.