(Manifest) Microservices

• Microservices are good when your system has different scale needs. For example, in a e-commerce the products page can be hard cached but the payment doesn’t and it needs high availability.
• Microservices are good for large organizations where each team supports a service. Conway’s law.

Monoliths are good enough for almost everything.

Microservices need justification. https://x.com/milan_milanovic/status/1722252645438484810?s=46

References Link to heading

• Meme: Microservices orchestration complexity
• How to recover from microservices
• MonolithFirst
• Monoliths are good enough for almost everything. Microservices need justification.
• Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
  • Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All
• Stack Overflow Architecture
• The Majestic Monolith
• What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
• Why you should build a (modular) monolith first?