[collyw]

I am reading through that section thinking similar things.

An application designed with microservices can be thought of as a monolith with unreliable network calls between the components. That is going to make most things more difficult not easier. Sure microservices might encourage you to design your application in a more modular way, but that's a bit of a strawman argument.

[pojzon]

First - always think whether monolith would solve your problems.

Second - would mixed architecture solve my problems ?

Third - would microservices solve my problem better?

Not every company has to be a Netflix or Zalando or Google...

I think we finally at the point when people should stop jumping on buzzwords and do the hard work of going through pros and cons of every solution.

[icebraining]

The advantage of jumping on the buzzwords is that have you many others with you.

I had to build a SaaS platform for hosting a business webapp, with the particularity that every client had their own separate codebase and database (no multitenancy). It was a simple django-like stateless app in front of Postgres and we had a low availability SLA (99.5%) so I thought it was simple, just deploy each app to one of a pool of servers, with a single Nginx and Postgres instances on each server, then point the client's (sub)domain to it.

In the end, it worked fine, but since I couldn't find anyone doing the same, it meant I had to write a whole bunch of custom tooling for deployment, management, monitoring, backups, etc.

Were I starting now and decided on Kubernetes, the solution would be more complex and less efficient, but it would mean we would have one-click deployment and pretty dashboards and such in a couple of days instead of many weeks. And if we had to bring someone in, they wouldn't have to learn my custom system.

Buzzwords are a kind of poor-man's standards, they provide some sort of common ground among many people.

[pojzon]

So instead you chose to still have to customize deployments and network setup. Alot more complex security config to do things seemingly "fast". Is that company a start up ? If not it will cost them alot later on..

[collyw]

You are still going to need to customize kubernetes deployments.