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I also laugh at 30+ microservice projects where almost every service connects to a single oracle database with no sharding/partitioning. Inb4 aws dynamodb outag

• connicpu 11mo ago
  The number of services at my job that are just grpc wrappers for a database with endpoints that are only accessed by services that have their own connections open to the same database has been driving me insane.
• 4ndrewl 11mo ago
  Isn't that a microservices 101? No shared databases?
  • kstrauser 11mo ago
    An important and common exception would be for performance critical reasons, as mentioned elsewhere. Say most of your code's in Python, but you rewrote parts in a faster language. There you're not necessaryily separating them for isolation or encapsulation purposes. It'd be as much of a mistake to force them to hit separate DBs.
  • xorcist 11mo ago
    Wasn't it two pizza teams and using the right tools for the right job?