I didn’t see this coming and I think it’s funny, so I decided to post it here.

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    24 minutes ago

    I was going to write that every function should be a service as sarcasm, then I realized that’s exactly what this article is proposing. Now I’m not even sure how to make a more ridiculous proposal than this.

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    Cant wait to set up a docker container for a service which takes a string input and transforms it into a number as the output. Full logging, its own certificate for encryption of course, 5 page config options and of course documentation. Now, you want to add two numbers together? You got the addition service set up right?

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    I’m trying to understand how this is different than a concept I learned in computer science in the late 80s/early 90s called RPCs (remote procedure calls). My senior project in college used these. Yes I’m old and this was 35 years ago.

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    This is just distributed functions, right? This has been a thing for years. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions, and so on. Not everything that uses these is built on a distributed functions model but a fuck ton of enterprises have been doing this for years.

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    Tech moved in cycles. We come back to the same half-baked ideas every so on, imagine we just discovered the idea and then build more and more technologies on top to try to fix the foundational problems with the concept until something else shiny comes along. A lot of tech work is “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly”.

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      I always keep saying " You cannot plan your way out of a system built on broken fundamentals." Microservices has it’s use case, but not every web app needs to be one. Too many buzzwords floating around in tech, that promise things that cannot be delivered.

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        Yep micro services are great, but monoliths are just as great and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It all depends on what the system requirements are.

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    Nano services are microservices after your company realizes monoliths are much easier to maintain and relabels their monoliths as microservices.

    Unironically. I’d put a significant wager down on that being the source of this term.

  • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    quantum services

    take your source code and put each character in its own docker container

    this gives you the absolute peak of scalability and agility as every quantum of your application is decoupled from the others and can be deployed or scaled independently

    implementing, operating and debugging this architecture is left as an exercise for the reader

    that will be $250,000 kthx

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      implementing, operating and debugging this architecture is left as an exercise for the reader

      Challenge accepted by a reader using AI, what could go wrong? xD

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    10 hours ago

    I feel like this name addresses the problem of services claiming to be microservices when they’re not.

    Does that even happen? cat is micro, sed is micro, systemd isn’t and doesn’t claim to be

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    17 hours ago

    You know what they say: micro services, macro outages.

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        8 hours ago

        Well during the never sev0 I’m sure the shareholders will be satisfied with that.