Microservices guru warns devs that trendy architecture shouldn't be the default for every app, but 'a last resort'

1    04 Mar 2020 18:30 by u/roznak

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0 u/derram 04 Mar 2020 18:56

https://archive.ph/wip/ykVnS :

2020-03-04 | Microservices guru warns devs that trendy architecture shouldn't be the default for every app, but 'a last resort' • The Register

'Overcome this, though, and many organisations "would be better off" with a modular monolith than with a microservices architecture. '

'Explaining the benefits of microservices, Newman said: "There are lots of reasons why we might pick a microservices architecture, but the one I keep coming back to is this property of independent deployability."'

'The distributed monolith has the deployment complexity of a microservices architecture, but without its benefits. '

'QCon London Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, told attendees at the QCon developer conference in London that "microservices should not be the default choice."'

'The implication is not that microservices are no good, but that developers have adopted them too readily, persuaded by the benefits. '

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0 u/notYOURfriend 04 Mar 2020 20:27

I've been programming for tons of years and have yet to feel the need for a "microservice", whatever the hell that is.

0 u/roznak [OP] 04 Mar 2020 21:21

A micro service is like a "Hello World" program, but thousands of them

0 u/3dk 05 Mar 2020 00:14

Sounds like a case of developer micropenis.