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When you're dealing with a giant piece of software that has existed since the 90s, with hundreds of developers working on it at any given moment, what you're de
by bedobi 6y ago
When you're dealing with a giant piece of software that has existed since the 90s, with hundreds of developers working on it at any given moment, what you're describing doesn't work. You can read about a famous example here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
- whakim 6y agoWell, you began by saying that "monoliths are universally bad in every imaginable way." You're now saying that a select few poorly-maintained, 25-year old monoliths are bad, which is an entirely different claim. That doesn't really prove that microservices are any better (are 25-year old poorly maintained clusters of services really going to be an improvement?). Let alone "better in every imaginable way."