The Microservice That Was Supposed to Save You Is Now a Trap (opens in new tab)

The Promise Was Real The pitch for microservices made sense. You take a large, unwieldy application and decompose it into small, independently deployable services. Each service does one thing. Teams own their services and deploy on their own schedule. If the payment service goes down, the recommendation engine keeps running. You scale the parts that need scaling, not everything. Netflix, Amazon, and Uber built systems this way and it worked. The architecture became aspirational. By the mid-20...