This is a well thought out and well reasoned article.
It resonates on many of the pain points of microservices. I also nearly broke out laughing at his definition of "microservice madness":
> Netflix are great at devops. Netfix do microservices. Therefore: If I do microservices, I am great at devops.
Because it is so hilariously accurate it's almost painful.
I do want to point out something the author implies, which is that there are benefits to microservices as a pattern...and as a pattern it is likely here to stay. It's an advanced pattern that comes with tradeoffs and complexity increases on the ops side. In the best case you're trading developer complexity for operational complexity and perhaps also getting better reliability (but this is not a guarantee).
Additionally, projects like Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy are all tools aimed at making certain operational complexities of microservices easier...so the operational trade offs are likely to change dramatically this year.
But in the end we can all still hope that madness dies in 2018 though.
It resonates on many of the pain points of microservices. I also nearly broke out laughing at his definition of "microservice madness":
> Netflix are great at devops. Netfix do microservices. Therefore: If I do microservices, I am great at devops.
Because it is so hilariously accurate it's almost painful.
I do want to point out something the author implies, which is that there are benefits to microservices as a pattern...and as a pattern it is likely here to stay. It's an advanced pattern that comes with tradeoffs and complexity increases on the ops side. In the best case you're trading developer complexity for operational complexity and perhaps also getting better reliability (but this is not a guarantee).
Additionally, projects like Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy are all tools aimed at making certain operational complexities of microservices easier...so the operational trade offs are likely to change dramatically this year.
But in the end we can all still hope that madness dies in 2018 though.