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> Microservices can be done right - but then they're just Service Oriented Architecture. Thanks for saying this out loud.

• dboreham 3y ago
  Silly me always thought Microservices was just a new word for SOA. What was the difference supposed to be?
  • miroljub 3y ago
    > Silly me always thought Microservices was just a new word for SOA. Lucky you. You were using “Microservices” the right way all the time, without even realising it.
  • zo1 3y ago
    You've then been fortunate enough to have never worked at a place where something simple like a "join" requires a call to a separate service. Suddenly something trivial becomes buzzword-filled chaos. Observability, apm, monitoring, kubernetes, scaling, events, pub sub, api contracts, Kafka, streams, multi repos, build pipelines, github workers, eventual consistency and so on.
  • jugg1es 3y ago
    a capital 'M' microservice is a service that is entirely self-contained with its own datastore and everything. It's an architecture that makes sense if you are talking about the 'Orders' component of an e-commerce website but starts to get really weird if you need to share any kind of data between the microservices.