Was Microservices a Bad Idea?
<p>Back in the day, I remember my fingers furiously typing away, wrestling with a massive, sprawling codebase. It was the era of the monoliths, when code, much like castles of old, was built stone by stone into a towering entity of impressive complexity.</p>
<p>Fast forward a few years, and the buzzword on every developer’s lips was “microservices.” <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Microservices Revolution</em></a> — promised to be our savior.</p>
<p>By fragmenting our monolithic behemoth into smaller, self-contained services, we were told we’d achieve unparalleled scalability, agility, and maintainability.</p>
<p>It sounded like the promised land. Faster deployments? Check.</p>
<p>Individual scaling? Check.</p>
<p>Independent team developments? Triple check.</p>
<p>But as I swapped the challenges of monolithic mayhem for those of microservices’ madness, I couldn’t help but wonder: Was the allure of microservices all it was chalked up to be? Or was it a mirage, shimmering tantalizingly in the distance, only to reveal its challenges as we drew closer?</p>
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