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by RandyRanderson 1674 days ago
I'm not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea in the first place. I always saw it as a manifestation of Conway's law [0] driven from money printing.

That is, more money -> higher demand for employees -> employees that shouldn't be given authority are -> "I want to code only in <techx that no one uses> -> microservices are the only way I can do this -> microservices are good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law