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Goodbye Microservices

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18 points by ahmd 4 years ago · 4 comments

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readonthegoapp 4 years ago

seems like a bit of a meaningless discussion without talking about a specific example.

and i'm here for it.

but one part i'm confused about is:

  horizontal scaling == microservices == k8s == containers == true?
i've never used kubernetes or related 'microservices' tech in a high use environment, so just have no practical experience with microservices, unless you could EJBs?

i can imagine troubleshooting a microservices environment could get hairy, but i've had non-microservices environments get hairy, so...

dedoussis 4 years ago

"There is no good and standardised way of expressing asynchronous APIs."

You may check: https://www.asyncapi.com/

RandyRanderson 4 years ago

I'm not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea in the first place. I always saw it as a manifestation of Conway's law [0] driven from money printing.

That is, more money -> higher demand for employees -> employees that shouldn't be given authority are -> "I want to code only in <techx that no one uses> -> microservices are the only way I can do this -> microservices are good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

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