Do you love microservices or hate them? There seems little middle ground in this debate. In a recent interview on the NeetCodeIO YouTube channel Matt Ranney of Doordash described microservices as Technical Debt. Microservices are often badly misunderstood, and microservice architecture, often badly misused. This idea of microservuce is both wrong and right, but probably more right than wrong,  so how do we do a better job of making the best of microservices?

In this episode Dave Farley, author of "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering" discusses the value of microservices when properly applied, and their costs when not. 

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🖇 "Microservice are Technical Debt, NeetCodeIO"  ➡️ https://youtu.be/LcJKxPXYudE

🖇 "Microservice Prerequisites, by Martin Fowler"  ➡️ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html

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Microservices are often viewed as either highly beneficial or a significant mistake in system organization. They represent a socio-technical strategy aimed at team autonomy rather than just a technical solution. Key advantages include managing complexity and modularity, but trade-offs involve increased design complexity and potential for technical debt. Essential to their success is careful design of service boundaries and communication. Despite skepticism, microservices can be effective for large, complex systems if implemented with sophisticated design thinking.

Yes... Microservices REALLY ARE Technical Debt