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I agree. Microservices enable startups to pivot very easily, or to implement or diverge into new sales channels quicker than with monolithic solutions. The sam

I agree. Microservices enable startups to pivot very easily, or to implement or diverge into new sales channels quicker than with monolithic solutions. The same applies to larger business. With microservices, ie. large banks can easily offer API services, enabling new revenue streams that were nearly impossible to offer before. Microservices are an excellent way to deal with future changes. The unknown unknowns like some would put it.

JamesBarney 9y ago
What size start-up do you think is benefited by a microservices architecture?
- hobofan 9y ago
  If you have people that are experienced with microservices I think it can even benefit a 2 person team. The anecdote that comes with that: I joined a startup as the second developer. The first developer built everything in a microservices architecture with the background that we were supposed to grow as a devteam significantly in the next 6 months. One of my first tasks was setting up CI/CD for the microservices so we can launch the product, which is a pretty routine setup for me since I've done the same thing ~5 times before. Then startup things happened and we stayed a 2 person team for a long long time. In the beginning, I was skeptical if the microservice architecture was really the right choice there, but overall I think we came out ahead. There were a lot of instances where we needed to upgrade libraries to fix some bugs or get some newer features and only had to upgrade very little of the whole codebase, allowing us to iterate faster. This would not have been possible in a monolith. We also experienced some of the microservices downsides, like slower refactoring and network connections being less reliable than in-process function calls, but with the right approach and tools, they were not much of a problem. Microservices are not a free lunch, but they can be a cheap and tasty one.

JamesBarney 9y ago

What size start-up do you think is benefited by a microservices architecture?

hobofan 9y ago
If you have people that are experienced with microservices I think it can even benefit a 2 person team. The anecdote that comes with that: I joined a startup as the second developer. The first developer built everything in a microservices architecture with the background that we were supposed to grow as a devteam significantly in the next 6 months. One of my first tasks was setting up CI/CD for the microservices so we can launch the product, which is a pretty routine setup for me since I've done the same thing ~5 times before. Then startup things happened and we stayed a 2 person team for a long long time. In the beginning, I was skeptical if the microservice architecture was really the right choice there, but overall I think we came out ahead. There were a lot of instances where we needed to upgrade libraries to fix some bugs or get some newer features and only had to upgrade very little of the whole codebase, allowing us to iterate faster. This would not have been possible in a monolith. We also experienced some of the microservices downsides, like slower refactoring and network connections being less reliable than in-process function calls, but with the right approach and tools, they were not much of a problem. Microservices are not a free lunch, but they can be a cheap and tasty one.