I remember a talk a few years ago where the CTO of a local startup was gushing about microservices and how productive they made his team. Sounded like an tech evangelist who had drank their own koolaid.
Then one of the "questions" in the Q&A was a pretty aggressive attack based on how unproductive the skeptics company had been to date and how they were on the verge of failing.
The speaker asked how many development teams they had and what was the size of their DevOps/Tooling team(s). When the skeptic admitted they only had a few developers, the speaker recommended they IMMEDIATELY pivot to Django/Rails/Node.js/.Net; "whatever you are most comfortable with". And then said "Why are you still standing there? You need to pivot tomorrow morning."
I think of those two questions every time I read or consider microservices. "How many teams. How big is your DevOps/Tooling team."
Then one of the "questions" in the Q&A was a pretty aggressive attack based on how unproductive the skeptics company had been to date and how they were on the verge of failing.
The speaker asked how many development teams they had and what was the size of their DevOps/Tooling team(s). When the skeptic admitted they only had a few developers, the speaker recommended they IMMEDIATELY pivot to Django/Rails/Node.js/.Net; "whatever you are most comfortable with". And then said "Why are you still standing there? You need to pivot tomorrow morning."
I think of those two questions every time I read or consider microservices. "How many teams. How big is your DevOps/Tooling team."