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> Microservices are a fairly recent innovation Yeah, no. Micro-services are neither recent, nor innovative. Fun fact: a friend of my consults for large pensio
by erichocean 10y ago
> Microservices are a fairly recent innovation
Yeah, no. Micro-services are neither recent, nor innovative.
Fun fact: a friend of my consults for large pensions funds in The Netherlands. One of the projects he was brought in on earlier this year to get an outside perspective on was this gigantic monument to micro-services that had been built up over a two year period by ~200 developers, at a cost of around 50 million euros.
After two months, every developer was fired, the project cancelled, and the entire 50 million euro cost written off.
But it had great micro-services, hundreds and hundreds of them!
- austingunter 10y agoCorrect. Microservices are a fundamental tenant of how Unix pipelines. They go back (at least) to the 70s. Source: https://articles.microservices.com/the-origins-of-microservices-706d65a8acab https://articles.microservices.com/the-origins-of-microservi...
- chadcmulligan 10y agothey are to the kids who make web apps - most of this stuff they talk about on the internet is by kids who make web pages for start ups. I used to rant and say similar things, I now see the value of peer reviewed material. Basically 90% of developers advocating things on the internet are not peers, I look for how many projects they've developed successfully in the new gee whiz tech before reading too much. Really most of this stuff was originally thought of in the 70's and 80's, we just keep going in circles.