Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

David Heinemeier Hansson · 4 May 2023

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Microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system.

Their wordsin practice, microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system.

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Microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system.

Their wordsin practice, microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system.
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Replacing method calls with network service partitioning within a single team and application is madness in almost all cases

Their wordsReplacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases.

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