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This is dated 2019-03-13 and it says "It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices" but wasn't the peak already earlier? Looking at HN posts - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=microservices - it looks like a lot of the high voted posts against microservices were 4-7 years ago.

Highest scoring one (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499137



From what I've seen over the years HN is on the leading edge of trends. If one really monitors the bleeding edge it doesn't feel that way. But people tend to forget the very very very long tail behind the curve.

We went through a hiring surge a year or so ago and I was astounded how many candidates had never used any cloud, GitHub, containers, micro services, modern tooling or language versions, etc. These are all things I assumed everyone had been using for several years now. Or if not, they'd already tried it and decided to move elsewhere. It was eye opening.

On their on premises monolith skills will come in handy with the bleeding edge companies in a few years.


The HN hype thermometer I think is still a good signal, like here at detecting when fads are over the hill.




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