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by ShellfishMeme 2209 days ago
But is it really true that so many companies create too small services? I admit I haven’t seen too many architectures from the inside but from my experience the problem is usually the opposite: adding more and more things to a monolith that already has serious complexity and scalability issues because it’s the convenient place and is faster to develop. Most of the times I heard about the nano services problem was from articles warning of using services and encouraging monoliths instead.
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It is true for companies that recently trying to adopt this "microservices" catchphrase. Just because it is a trend and somebody sold kubernetes/cf/some-other-cloud-solution to the company, they end up overusing it and creating a new microservice for something that could just be a separate package in already existing microservice. I am definitely not encouraging monolith architecture, they are horrible to work with, but I am also not suggesting 1500+ microservices for a company like Monzo (just considering their lack of functionalities compared to other new banks, 1500+ microservices sound like nanoservices instead to me)