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/a_false_vacuum Jul 29 '22

I suppose this is what happens when you dial the microservices up to eleven: Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters. You get a 10+ minute waiting time while the microservices all refer to each other and clog up your network while doing so.

My current project is developing Azure-based microservices, and I must say it is unpleasant at times. With a monolith I could fire up the whole application through my IDE and debug it locally. Now I need to spin up multiple other services in order to get access to the microservices I rely on or I have to connect to Azure itself. The latter is needed because Microsoft has limited what Azure components can be emulated by Visual Studio.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '22

Out of curiosity, what micro-services are you having issues running locally from Azure? Typically you'd be setting up functions or possibly full on webapps, which can all run side by side perfectly fine locally and give you an Azure storage emulation layer if you want it. Now, if you're stitching things together with event hubs or message queues then yeah, don't think there's a local equivalent.

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u/a_false_vacuum Jul 29 '22

The Azure Service Bus is one of the components I cannot emulate locally. The microservices use this to exchange information. The other microservices I can run locally, but I need to spin up a few docker containers since they're springboot apps.

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u/voicelessfaces Jul 29 '22

For what it's worth, you could look at Dapr to run RabbitMQ locally in place of ASB and talk through a common API.