[ljm]

One place I worked at got sold on microservices by Thoughtworks, along with a change to Java as the main language to be used.

As one would expect, they made bank from their consulting endeavor and rode off into the sunset while the rest of us wasted several years of our careers rewriting ugly but functional monolithic code into distributed Java based microservices. We could have been working on features and product but essentially were justifying a grift, adding new and novel bugs as we rebuilt stable APIs from scratch.

The company went under not long after the project was abandoned. Nobody, of course, would be held to account for it. I will no longer touch a tech consultancy like TW with a 10 foot barge pole.

[wmf]

What language was used before Java?

[eddyfromtheblok]

probably java, i doubt decision makers want a rewrite unless they want to bring in hungry young developers and accept some hiccoughs

[ljm]

You’d be wrong.

It was Ruby.