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I left my last job as a senior architect mostly because of microservices ran amok. I decided that there was little I could do to move the needle and since the m

I left my last job as a senior architect mostly because of microservices ran amok. I decided that there was little I could do to move the needle and since the microsevice mania drove them also to having close to a hundred of those things there wasn't a way to make a meaningful contribution other than tell them to throw it all in the garbage and start over with a vastly simplified architecture.

mbrodersen 4y ago
Yep not surprised. The reality is that most micro-services only work OK today because they are basically a complete rewrite of the previous system or a brand new system. ANY brand new system (including monoliths) works perfectly fine because it is all new and everything is in the developers heads. Just wait a few years and the system will turn into not only spaghetti but distributed spaghetti as new developers join the team and the original writers of the system leave.