Microservices
Why Hacker News recommends it
Posted as a joke or shorthand whenever a thread touches microservices, architecture sprawl, naming, or talking to management.
What it is
A short KRAZAM comedy sketch in which engineers explain an absurdly tangled microservices architecture to a manager. It parodies how backend complexity gets justified with jargon.
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What Hacker News said
Cites hn_throwaway_99 · 2024-06 · on “Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?”
I realize you're being sarcastic (I think), but I actually would put microservices in the same boat. There was a huge push to microservices in the mid teens, and a lot of companies came to hugely regret it. There is a reason this video, [this video] , is so popular. And it's not that "no one is using microservices", it's just that tons of companies realized they added almost as many complications as they alleviated, and that for many teams they were just way too premature. And a lot of the companies that I've seen have the most success with microservices are also the most pragmatic about them: they use them in some specific, targeted areas (e.g. authn and authz), but otherwise they're content usi