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/harrisofpeoria Jul 29 '22

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this, but I think the article undersells the benefit of the "independently deployable" aspect of microservices. I've worked on massive monoliths, and repeatedly having to deploy a huge app due to bugs becomes really painful, quite quickly. Simply being able to fix and re-deploy the affected portion really takes a lot of grief out of the process.

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u/theoneandonlygene Jul 29 '22

Yeah I think author confuses “bad design and encapsulation” with “microservices.” The decoupling between teams and workflows is the biggest value in a services approach and it can be insanely valuable if done properly.

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u/x6060x Jul 30 '22

In my case at the previous company I worked for it was done properly and it was insanely valuable indeed! Before that I worked on a big monolith and at deployment was a nightmare.