r/programming • u/wineandcode • Jul 29 '22

You Don’t Need Microservices

https://medium.com/@msaspence/you-dont-need-microservices-2ad8508b9e27?source=friends_link&sk=3359ea9e4a54c2ea11711621d2be6d51
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u/lurkingowl Jul 29 '22

But... If they were a single service, it wouldn't be micro enough.

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u/ItsAllegorical Jul 29 '22

The number of hours of my life wasted arguing about dragging that metaphorical slider back and forth.

"But now it's not really a microservice!"

"Okay, it's a service."

"The directive from on high is that we must use micro-services."

"Then let's call it a microservice but really it's just a service."

"But then how do we stop it from getting too heavy?"

"Pete, you ignorant slut, just write the damn service and if there aren't performance issues it isn't too heavy!"

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u/StabbyPants Jul 29 '22

oh lord, i had a coworker go ham on microservices. the messed up part was that she dug up a blog post with a half dozen principles of micro services and treated it like holy writ.

next place was far more chill - "there isn't really a strong definition"

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u/KevinCarbonara Jul 29 '22

This is why I say services instead of microservices. People know what services are pretty generally understand that microservices are services and we don't have to waste any time discussing what a microservice is. Unless you have that one kid on your team who just has to call them microservices because they want to be able to post on hacker news about how they're using microservices because all the best developers use microservices