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by no_wizard 404 days ago
>I question if you couldn't make it work in ~100% of cases if you genuinely tried to.

You could say this about almost any pattern, if you genuinely tried to make microservices work it could work in ~100% of cases, I'm sure of that.

Its this pattern of dismissing or accepting a solution with strong prejudice you don't evaluate the merits is the real problem. Thats the true behavior we need to get away from.

We as an industry may find, that modular monoliths trend toward the top as a result (I hate to speculate too much, every company is different and there are in fact other patterns of development beyond the two mentioned) but that would be a side effect if true. The real win is moving away from such prejudiced behavior
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bob1029 404 days ago
> Its this pattern of dismissing or accepting a solution with strong prejudice you don't evaluate the merits is the real problem.

I spent a solid 3 years of my career attempting to make micro service architecture work in a B2B SaaS ecosystem. I have experience. This is not prejudice.

> modular monoliths

I don't see the meaningful difference between this and microservices.

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no_wizard 404 days ago
>I spent a solid 3 years of my career attempting to make micro service architecture work in a B2B SaaS ecosystem. I have experience. This is not prejudice.

Yes, you do have experience, and it may not match others. Thats my point. At previous jobs, I had terrible microservice experiences, they were everything people complained about them to be. Yet, by setting that aside and really diving into evaluation on merits, I came around on the idea because I understand the failures of my previous experience came to misapplication of the concepts, not the concepts themselves.

Thats what we need more of, the kind of evaluation and reflection one should do when making these decisions (or being apart of a group that does) and I don't think we should discount our own experiences, we should strive to separate them from the concepts of appropriate technical decision making, lest we become overly biased for or against something.

>I don't see the meaningful difference between this and microservices.

The most obvious is the independence microservices have. They're truly independent. Sometimes that is exactly what you want

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