You can do both with microservices!

mystifyingpoi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I get the joke, but in ideal world, in microservices, there is no such thing as code duplication across services. As a maintainer of a service, I should not give a crap about code present in some other service - it's some other team's code, why would I care? I don't have to even know that the other team exists. In big systems, it happens that I can't even feasibly know the existence of all the applications.

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cryo32 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

You mean you don’t have 300 versions of your badly developed rapidly evolving platform services rotting away underneath the bit you didn’t duplicate?

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mystifyingpoi 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't. Other teams - maybe they do, maybe they don't. Who cares, not me. I have responsibility for services of my team, I think we are doing a good job.

Being selfish is the core principle of microservice architecture.

	▲	cryo32 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Until half your company gets laid off and you have to adopt other people’s shit.

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zephen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But wait! There's more!

For $19.95, you can replace your single single point of failure with multiple single points of failure!

	▲	flawn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or for 100$, get a 5x increase on all failure points - maximum vibes, maximum excitement.

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mohamedkoubaa 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please, stop it

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DJBunnies 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Except 9/10 times microservices end up wildly dependent on each other, yielding a distributed monolith. Better to use service oriented architecture and just ship the monolith, you can test easier and skip the extra layers of serialization / deserialization.

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mystifyingpoi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> end up

So it just happens, right? There is no remedy to this? You know the answer :)

BTW I'm all for monolith.

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loevborg 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you missed GP's point

	▲	zephen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Poe's Law FTW!