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I think that’s too strong an overreaction. Conway’s law is powerful but it’s not the only reason why microservices are harder: there are also valid technical co

by acdha 3y ago

I think that’s too strong an overreaction. Conway’s law is powerful but it’s not the only reason why microservices are harder: there are also valid technical concerns inherent to needing to coordinate changes across multiple services which are still a concern even if the same people are running everything. That doesn’t mean they’re not worth using but greater frictional costs needs to be a consciously-accepted trade off.

rewmie 3y ago
> Conway’s law is powerful but it’s not the only reason why microservices are harder (...) It's the reason covered in the video you're commenting on, though. Except that "teams who happen to own microservices experience org coordination issues" is spun as "microservices owned by teams cause organizational issues". From their inception, microservices were always a management tool, which happens to have operational and technical benefits and tradeoffs. If a project goes through challenges because they can't get all teams on the same page, that is not a technical problem.