On: Microservices are hard

[mainguy]

Or as I like to say "Oh, you have a big ball of mud in your monolith because of poor design and want to move to micro-services?"..."now you have n^n big balls of mud" Poor design is poor design, adding more complexity just makes it a more complicated poor design.

[api → mainguy]

All these design pattern and methodology fads are attempts to get around the simple truth you stated, and one other:

No design pattern or methodology will make bad programmers write good code. The only solution for poor skills is practice, education, and experience.

[rqtwteye → api]

Yup. I always tell people that if they can’t write and manage decent libraries microservices won’t help them.