Meme Captures Microservices Wisdom by Career Stage
Posts share an IQ bell curve meme on shifting microservices opinions across career stages.
@systemdesignone shared a meme showing one monolith as low stress. A second post linked an IQ bell curve image on microservices. @tekbog presented the image as a filter for engineer career stage. @theodorebeers described the left figure as seeing microservices as the real-world norm, the middle as recognizing net negatives at small scale, and the right as working in larger organizations. @boscovne replied that microservices mainly reduce cross-team developer friction.
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Meme Captures Microservices Wisdom by Career Stage
Posts share an IQ bell curve meme on shifting microservices opinions across career stages.
@systemdesignone shared a meme showing one monolith as low stress. A second post linked an IQ bell curve image on microservices. @tekbog presented the image as a filter for engineer career stage. @theodorebeers described the left figure as seeing microservices as the real-world norm, the middle as recognizing net negatives at small scale, and the right as working in larger organizations. @boscovne replied that microservices mainly reduce cross-team developer friction.
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Brenden Bishop@bbishdotdevWorking my entire career in large company and micro services, this is absolutely not true. I’ve yet to see any execution of micro services achieve what conceptually they promise. It always ends the same way… impossible to coordinate any change, high costs, a dev culture of…
NB Nonya Bidness@NonyaBi10393887I've got two giant monoliths that I can show you that will raise your cortisol. Have fun with the incidents after a few years. Just wait for the readability of the code to drop off to zero after 3-4 years after team members have cycled in and out of the team. No domain…
MG Matthew Griisser@_mgriisser@tekbog Microservices have always been a bad idea. Extracting things into new services can make sense. But if you conceive of your company as starting out with microservices or "switching to microservices" there is a 99% chance you are making very bad decisions
AD adham@adhhamofficial@systemdesignone Microservices are overrated for most business in my experience. An unnecessary complexity.
D🗯️ Dhanian 🗯️@e_opore@systemdesignone Monolith always wins
ST Stefano@snipershady_@systemdesignone Booooring