Let's be real, if a micro service is down, youre down too.
If our store service goes down, that sucks for us, but our login service, queue service etc all still work. People can't buy shit but they can still play our games.
Not to mention, our store service needs far less traffic than our queue service, or our login service, or matchmaking service etc.
A monolith is sometimes a good solution - our games are monoliths - but service oriented architecture exists for many reasons, some technical and some political
Your job isn't to design a solution that scratches your particular brain itch, your job is to design a solution that works for the constraints you need. That might be a monolith but it also might not be!
This. Different things should be kept different. I have a feeling that some people use "microservice" as this magical word that removes all inter-dependencies. If you have function A that relies on function B, it doesn't matter if its in a monolith or a micro-service, A is not going to work if B doesn't.
Hahaha but it's happened so much. I'm over 20 years in and I swear we've come full circle 3 times now. Especially on web.
The switch from all JavaScript bad css good. Handle it all with the backend using MVC. Then to front end frameworks like angular and react. Then suddenly, this new concept called "server side rendering" rofl.
People liked React and Angular because it made frontends easier, then people realized that React could be used for non-javascript environments, and then realized you can restore progressive enhancement by rendering React on the render and piping a large javascript bundle to the frontend.
Today's SSR builds on this by basically designing an application and having the language (or framework, rather) express which parts require user interactivity and which don't, and this makes it easier to deploy applications to multiple platforms while not compromising the user experience.
We definitely go in cycles for sure, but viewing the path from MVC to frontend only libraries to SSR as being motivated out of where to put the javascript is kind of missing the forest for the trees
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u/theofficialnar 3d ago
If it goes down, it all goes down. 😎