Death by a thousand microservices.

You can consider it to be yet another “old tech guy yells at cloud” article, but it has ratio in it.

Yet, I wouldn’t say that we have to throw away the whole idea of distributed systems. Distributed systems is the reason why I still have a job!

So, I would rather read this piece as a “memento mori” article, a reminder that we have to take things in moderation.

For example, there’s an idea of having a “trunk” monolith supported by a handful of additional smaller services. I know a company that does just that and you know what? They’re fine!

#friday #culture