> most companies will never experience the level of scale of 2013 Twitter
I fully agree with your argument. Then again, as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, microservices are often not introduced to solve a scalability problem but an organizational one and there are many organizations that have more engineers than Twitter (had).
Personally, I still don't buy that argument because by solving one organizational problem one risks creating a different one, as this blog post[0] illustrates:
> […] Uber has grown to around 2,200 critical microservices
Unsurprisingly, that same post notes that
> […] in recent years people have begun to decry microservices for their tendency to greatly increase complexity, sometimes making even trivial features difficult to build. […] we experienced these tradeoffs first hand
I'm getting very strong Wingman/Galactus[1] vibes here.
I fully agree with your argument. Then again, as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, microservices are often not introduced to solve a scalability problem but an organizational one and there are many organizations that have more engineers than Twitter (had).
Personally, I still don't buy that argument because by solving one organizational problem one risks creating a different one, as this blog post[0] illustrates:
> […] Uber has grown to around 2,200 critical microservices
Unsurprisingly, that same post notes that
> […] in recent years people have begun to decry microservices for their tendency to greatly increase complexity, sometimes making even trivial features difficult to build. […] we experienced these tradeoffs first hand
I'm getting very strong Wingman/Galactus[1] vibes here.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221105153616/https://www.uber....
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ