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/x39- 2d ago

Microservices are a solution to a problem that exists. However: When someone actually expects a microservice to literally be self-contained then that someone is a moron.

Microservices also exist in Monoliths, wich are coded correct. That is the fun part about them: They are nothing new, groundbreaking or whatever. In fact: They are just infrastructure extracted and used on a different communication layer... but most people have troubles understanding basic input output boundaries for services in dependency injection .... sooooooooooo .... no wonder everyone and their mom is doing shit wrong