tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless"
Amazon: "The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs."
Oh look, they've finally acknowledged what some of us have been saying ever since *checks notes* Amazon started pushing the microservices/serverless hype on everybody
But nooooo, why would you ever listen to anyone who *isn't* a megacorporation, surely they can't be more competent than Amazon!
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Who wants to bet that now that Amazon has said it, the dev community will suddenly be all over monoliths again, those same people who ridiculed us for recommending against microservices because we weren't Amazon saying it?
re: tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless"
@joepie91 that just sounds like the ad-supported blog business. quick content. what's the quickest way? copy and reword what's already out there
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@joepie91 honestly the whole enterprise software development industry (including open-source) is filled with so much shit, and grifters and just transfer of money over frankly nothing... whether that be the software itself or ad-attention reading developers at huge companies circle jerking over some great practice their business is financially invested in... so much wasted human energy
like ignoring the software optimized for profit over efficiency and the extra energy consumption that induces, what about the wasted human energy just spent supporting this useless transfer of money that results in imperceivable gains. and often those gains are just faster operations of said useless money transfers!
there is good open source software ecosystems out there, but the good comes from passionate developers, not corporations. it would still be produced without the corporations, just maybe a little slower.
sorry now I'm ranting, I just hate enterprise software dev lmao
re: tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless"
@joepie91 Yeah… there’s a place for both. As with all these things you should pick an architecture that meets your business’ needs, not whatever is in vogue. Monoliths will get you very far.
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@ohno Part of the problem with microservices is that it's not actually a new concept; the idea of "separating out some stuff to scale it separately" has been around for a long time.
What "microservices" means, however, is "separate out *everything* by default, regardless of whether you have a reason for it". Which is why I'm comfortable concluding that unlike service separation, "microservices" are just a fundamentally bad idea; the ignorance to context is built directly into the concept :/
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By the way, what's up with all these blog posts and videos that essentially just repeat the Amazon blog post, without adding anything new?