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by blowski 1430 days ago
Nothing in the article is fresh news. Sam Newman made many of these same points himself in his 2015 book on microservices.

The article does _not_ discuss why engineering teams ignore that advice.

Companies see microservices as a silver bullet for solving complexity. Inexperienced engineers attracted to shiny things jump on the bandwagon. Vendors sell tooling to deal with the new complexity. But in that case, if it wasn’t microservices, it would be OOP, FP, SPAs, RPC, RDBMS, NoSQL, etc. The problem is the hype cycle. Over-use of microservices is only a symptom.
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tomlin 1430 days ago
He didn't label it as "news", it was an opinion. Regardless if it was said before, who cares? He's not allowed to speak on his experiences because it offends your MO?

I think the opinion he had was justified by his own experiences, which mimic my own - and many of those working at smaller agencies/dev shops (you know, the vast majority of the workforce). It was nice to read something not entirely in the perspective of a Silicon Valley developer drunk on his own ignorance of the rest of the world.

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blowski 1430 days ago
Check out my comment history and you’ll see that I agree with the points too! But the bar for a good Hacker News post is “interesting”. Opinions that are widely agreed with on here, and have been for years, don’t meet that for me personally. That’s my say on the matter, you of course are welcome to yours.

For what it’s worth, I live in the UK, and have never been to the US.

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tomlin 1430 days ago
I implore you to watch the incessant, and regular posts on HN claiming that microservices are the future for everyone and everything, and then be there to tell them you've seen this before. My guess is you won't be as lead-footed in those cases. The idea that if you write an article or an opinion, and have to do an hour of research to see if its been covered before is a high level of micromanagement that you just aren't ever going to see, I'm sorry. It's super unrealistic to expect that.
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blowski 1430 days ago
Sure. It’s also super-unrealistic to expect me not to criticise the article for being boring.
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tomlin 1429 days ago
> "where you can get a whole bunch of likes by saying “microservices bad amirite?!”

Okay.

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