The microservices fallacy - Part 2
Debunking the scalability fallacy
This post discusses the widespread fallacy that microservices are needed to tackle scaling issues.
The long way towards resilience - Part 10
Architecture
The microservices fallacy - Part 1
The origins and fallacies of microservices
This is a blog series discussing the fallacies of microservices. It complements a talk I have given.
The purpose of architecture
Architecture as a means to improve quality of life
Software architecture is one of the things in software development that is important. At least that is what many people – especially software architects – claim: It is about the “important decisions”, the “decisions that are hard to change later”, and so on.
Throwing things away
Creating value by cleaning up
This post sort of complements the “Simplify!” blog series as it also points towards the simplification of the IT landscape. Still, based on a different train of thought, I decided to make it an independent post.
Simplify! - Introduction
Motivation and table of contents
When I look around, I see two evolutions that in combination worry me a lot:
