Microservices: The Million-Dollar Mistake Your Company is Making

<p>In the middle of the last decade, as I was elbow-deep in code, tinkering with concepts like service discovery, a buzzword began to echo through the halls of tech companies worldwide &mdash; &ldquo;microservices&rdquo;. I was there at the dawn, championing the concept, speaking at conferences, and guiding clients on the fascinating journey towards this promising architecture. At that time, Kubernetes was barely a whisper on the wind. However, my perspective today in 2023 differs drastically from the optimism of those initial years.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/0*gee2b5NEwlWViv8j" style="height:467px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/@marvelous?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Marvin Meyer</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></p> <p>The dream sold by the microservices architecture was enticing &mdash; a utopian vision of independent teams, unhindered by technology or deployment constraints, delivering value rapidly and independently. But the real world, as it tends to do, had different plans.</p> <p><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/microservices-the-million-dollar-mistake-your-company-is-making-c50eb428f732">Visit Now</a></p>