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Not sure why the contempt with an opinion. I get that microservices are trite, and most people think they need them long before necessary; however, they have u

• eropple 9y ago
  It's not contempt, it's frustration because you're making assertions that are not backed up by reality. This is what I do for a living, and I am regularly but-but-microserviced by people who are equally ignorant of competent application design and who think that breaking it into HTTP-intermediated chunks will solve that they are choosing to write bad code. That segmentation doesn't--it does nothing. It isn't YAGNI, but YAHYBDI, and I'll get hot under the T-shirt occasionally 'cause people who read discussions like this will get the wrong idea and stick their hands into the saw, too. I could get paid more by letting people mangle themselves, but it'd be mean.
• bpicolo 9y ago
  Their main use is scale, but not tech scale. Scale of engineering teams. There's the occasional case where a single language won't fit the bill, but there's a big difference between 2 services and 200.