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I feel that the pro-monolith / anti-microservice attitude has become something of a cargo cult (at least here on HN).

• hedora 7y ago
  Cargo cults were island nations that saw cargo planes land. They didn’t understand why the planes landed, but they did want to trade with them. They built makeshift runways and put out boxes of cargo in the hope of attracting planes. If anything, the 5 person startup with 20 microservices “because Google/Netflix” and “we want to scale” is the cargo cult in this debate. Not saying one side’s wrong or right, just that cargo cult doesn’t seem to being used correctly here. (I admit I’m skeptical of microservices, since they add so much complexity, and even Netflix suffers partial service outages on a regular basis...)