The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills

Denis Bolkovskis

Mental Health

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There is no standard tooling for microservices-based development - there is no common framework. Working on distributed systems has gotten only marginally easier in 2020s. The Dockers and the Kuberneteses of the world did not magically take away the inherent complexity of a distributed setup.

Death by a thousand microservices

“But each team…but separate… but API”

My important takeaway from this,
With microservices, an engineer has to have a mental map of the entire system in order to know what services to bring up for any particular task, what teams to talk to, whom to talk to, and what about.

I love it, it describes some of our clients’ behaviour around microservices. It’s only a matter of time before it backfires. In the meantime, time is being wasted on solving the problems that arise when using microservices.

How can one feel so many emotions inside and yet be speechless?!? The author ought to give himself a raise!👏