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 — “microservices”. 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.
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The dream sold by the microservices architecture was enticing — 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.