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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The problem is, most organizations don't actually need the very specific benefits that come with microservices and are also in no way equipped to deal with the tremendous increase in complexity that comes along with distributed systems.

Worst of both worlds ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We only have ten logins a day, but what if UserBirthdayEmailer suddenly needs to go Web scale?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

100% agreed. But sales people gotta sell so you end up with "solutions" that create the problem they're claiming to solve in the first place

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is why I take my job as sales engineer very seriously. If a customer isn't right for the system they're far more likely to churn, so I'm going to come out and say it regardless of how it makes sales feel.