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I don't think Martin Fowler realized when he wrote the first microservices article that he'd stumbled upon a technical solution to a political problem. He just
by stcredzero 8y ago
I don't think Martin Fowler realized when he wrote the first microservices article that he'd stumbled upon a technical solution to a political problem. He just saw it work and wanted to share.
The generation of programmers that Martin Fowler is from, are exactly the people from whom I got my ideas around how organization politics effect software and vice versa. There was plenty of cynicism around organization politics back then.
- jacquesm 8y agoAnd it's not as if Martin Fowler came up with the idea as an original either, QnX, Erlang and many other systems used those basic ideas much earlier (sometimes decades earlier). But this is the web, where the old is new again.
- icebraining 8y agoHe says so himself: > We do not claim that the microservice style is novel or innovative, its roots go back at least to the design principles of Unix.
- projektfu 8y agoIt’s safe to say that Fowler rarely claims to originate things. He’s more of a taxonomist.
- User23 8y agoIt's interesting how few executives understand this come reorganization time.