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The silent majority are mostly corporate devs building internal tooling. Microservices are a fantastic method for building distributed, horizontally scaling, dy
by packetlost 4y ago
The silent majority are mostly corporate devs building internal tooling. Microservices are a fantastic method for building distributed, horizontally scaling, dynamic services in a way that's sane. But the overwhelming vast majority of services would be perfectly ok with a simple monolith that occasionally gets a VM spec bump.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> horizontally scaling I have never seen services (of any size) succeed in a place that wasn't using them to do vertical partitioning of a system. I imagine you are probably talking about horizontally scaling each of those vertical partitions, but the phrasing is really confusing.
- packetlost 4y agoYeah, I'm probably just explaining poorly. That's what I was thinking: horizontally scaling subsets of your verticals that need it (they don't usually all need to scale at the same rate)
- marcosdumay 4y agoOh, it's not you explaining it poorly. That's just the usual idiom, that anybody that already knows the meaning will instantly understand. My criticism is more general, that the usual idiom is confusing and misleading for people that don't know it already. Maybe it shouldn't be usual.