> I think you’d be surprised how much some major tech companies (Google etc.) are and have been relying on microservices and that style of architecture for many years now. [...] I think the biggest conflict here is scale of the services involved.
I wouldn't be surprised that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc. use microservices heavily.
But I think it's more, the scale of the companies, rather than the scale of the services. When you've got a lot of developers—thousands or tens of thousands, on hundreds of teams—having independent microservices is surely the way to go.
But, when you're a small company, with ~10 developers? It's not.
Yep, last time I worked at a company w around 13 devs, everything had to be done "the microservice way", because all the cool guys are doing it and it is the way to go.
Microservices is the new snake oil :D Now downvote me into oblivion :)
I wouldn't be surprised that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc. use microservices heavily.
But I think it's more, the scale of the companies, rather than the scale of the services. When you've got a lot of developers—thousands or tens of thousands, on hundreds of teams—having independent microservices is surely the way to go.
But, when you're a small company, with ~10 developers? It's not.