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by hintymad 1469 days ago
> and contains approximately 2,100 unique Go services (and growing).

A side topic: this is really not something to be proud of. There used to be more people than quantity of work in Uber and engineers fought for credits by building bogus decomposed services, and the sheer number of services seems indicate it's still so.
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jeremy_wiebe 1469 days ago
That number really store out to me too. I’d be very curious how they decide what becomes a separate service.

I’d also be curious if the 50m lines of code included generated code.

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shp0ngle 1469 days ago
I did not work in Uber, but a similar company, and... it's a very political thing, usually.

Taking an existing service and making it into 2 new microservices is a "thing you did". Suddenly, you have "impact" and can claim the new service as "yours". Everyone wants to be a king of their little kingdom.

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crabbygrabby 1468 days ago
You are me and I am you, I'll always be with you
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jordanbeiber 1469 days ago
If they still use cadence/temporal[0] extensively this kind of blurs the concept of technical ”services”.

We’ve started to use it (temporal) a bit for general automations, and it’s pretty great. Monorepo with a lot of different activities (“microservices”) makes sense.

The activites are orchestrated in workflows (much like DDD “sagas”) and scheduled via temporal. This gives awesome introspection and observability.

[0] https://temporal.io/

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