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What constitutes a micro service when you have 2800? Are these individual lambdas for each endpoint and background task or something?

• piva00 2y ago
  2800 is not even that many depending on the company size. At my current employer I'd guess we have somewhere between 2-3x that, and those are more complex services than a simple lambda + endpoint in each. Just my user with its groups gives me ownership of some 200+ components. Those are only backend microservices, not counting data pipelines, and other supporting applications. What constitutes a microservice is a philosophical question very related to the company's culture, some companies will prefer very small single use-case services, some will develop microservices that support a whole isolated functionality (with business logic) to be re-used across the stack. There's no single definition that can be applicable to such variety of architectures.
• willsewell 2y ago
  I think we've gone back on forth on this over the years. The rate of new services is decreasing, so I think we have shifted more from lots of very small services (low thousands lines of code) to bigger ones that are more like an entire product (e.g. 100k LoC+). But I wouldn't be surprised if the pendulum shifts back again in the future - there are downsides with the larger services, like greater contention withe other engineers.
• ebiester 2y ago
  That's what I've seen elsewhere, at least.