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That may be true, but the article describes a services architecture and labels it microservices, indeed goes onto to say: > The term micro can be misleading, t
by xnorswap 3y ago
That may be true, but the article describes a services architecture and labels it microservices, indeed goes onto to say:
> The term micro can be misleading, though - there doesn’t have to be anything micro about the services
- Scarblac 3y agoYes, but the "widespread meme" as I see it is about microservices, not services in general.
- butlerm 3y agoThe smaller the service, the more likely that the overhead of having a separate service exceeds the benefit of doing so. It isn't at all normal for a service to have its own database unless it provides a substantial piece of functionality, for example, and there are non-trivial costs to splitting databases unnecessarily. If you are not very careful, it is a good way to make certain things a dozen times slower and a dozen times more expensive to develop.