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!
re: tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless"
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 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.
re: tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless"
@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 :/
