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I’ve heard this and at some large engineering orgs, I’ve even occasionally seen it applied sensibly, but IME irrational hype driven architecture dominates:

15 microservices at companies with 5 engineers. Event sourcing where it made no sense. Apache Spark used on a project where all the data and processing fit on a laptop. Orchestration layers; frontends for backends; queues everywhere; the list is endless.




We agree there. Many teams went way too far in the other direction. There is a happy medium of one service per 1-3 teams with a few dedicated outliers such as third party connectors, and using libraries judiciously within larger codebases.




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