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I worked on a project that was a monolith. A team was placed to rewrite it to microservices and shortly after I quit that job. About a year after that I ate lun
by ecmascript 6y ago
I worked on a project that was a monolith. A team was placed to rewrite it to microservices and shortly after I quit that job. About a year after that I ate lunch with a ex-colleague that told me they were still working on that rewrite.
Looking at the page now it looks like the monolith is still running as far as I can see, about 5 years later. I guess they gave up. :)
- woutr_be 6y agoWas the rewrite to microservices really the problem here? I’ve worked on a few such projects too, where we decided to rewrite the application, but it never ended up replacing the old existing one. Technology was never the issue in all these.
- ecmascript 6y agoMost likely not, the new guys were phd-types that was ultra smart but did nothing except have meetings. I think they were over-engineering it completely which made it impossible to deliver something of value. However, I think that is often the case of a microservices architecture.
- woutr_be 6y ago> Most likely not, the new guys were phd-types that was ultra smart but did nothing except have meetings. There's your problem, regardless of architecture, it would most likely have been over-engineered anyway.