[foxyv]

Going from a monolith to a micro-service setup is essentially my idea of a Christian hell. Swirling depths of pain and uncertainty interspersed with screaming and urgency. There is no rest. No one knows when it will end.

I think this is because our monoliths are so complicated they hide away our technical debt like monstrous Jack-In-The-Boxes. When you start breaking it into chunks all of these issues come exploding out of them. Suddenly huge bugs that no one noticed or cared about are showing up in testing. Old libraries that sat dormant wake from their crypts to harass and torture junior developers. Forgotten binaries whose source code was lost with the changeover from ancient source control software to GIT starts showing up security issues in VeraCode.

Really, a well coded monolith is just a bunch of micro-services on the same server communicating through memory. In reality it's more of a Lich who's eyes shine with the light of the tortured souls of fallen QA testers and developers.

[dasil003]

Agreed, however I've experienced something worse: trying to refactor domain models across an SOA that was poorly factored to begin with, and then layered 10k eng-years of incremental feature development driven by a fractured product team with short average tenures.

[foxyv]

Sounds like a second circle. Jeeze, my condolences.

[JetAlone]

This is poetry.