Admittedly, when I first heard of microservices, I thought they could run on the same machine, as modular components of a single application, that could be spun off to their own instances for resilience against crashes (provided the program could handle it gracefully). I saw it as something that could scale up, even if it added architectural complexity.
In the time I've been away from programming, it's not gone down well.
From excessive overheads, despite better control over compute capacity...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhklFv_VRq8
...to basically becoming technical debt in its own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8NDgwOllaI
Microservices didn't even last three years. Something I'm glad I didn't waste my time learning.
Bricky
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