On Complexity and Monoliths. Putting microservices (and other… | by Mikael Vesavuori | Oct, 2023 | Medium

H orror writer H.P. Lovecraft, in his short story The Nameless City, famously attributed this quote to a mad (fictional) poet: That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die. And—yes indeed—here and now I will let the above refer to monoliths (and other phenomena) and not fictive gods sleeping in the ocean, waiting to consume humanity. This article is reflective and highly opinionated in nature. If you want a more technical, objective approach to concrete solutions and discussions on this matter, then see for example these great books: Definition: Oh, and microservices don’t have to equate Kubernetes. For me, at least, that’s an entirely different point. I’ll instead think of function-as-a-service (FaaS) as a purer realization of microservices, even though the term “microservices” should be kept as generalized as possible in this article. Final trigger warning: I won’t argue about monoliths for cases where they are rationally relevant, such as very l

H orror writer H.P. Lovecraft, in his short story The Nameless City, famously attributed this quote to a mad (fictional) poet: That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die. And—yes indeed—here and now I will let the above refer to monoliths (and other phenomena) and not fictive gods sleeping in the ocean, waiting to consume humanity. This article is reflective and highly opinionated in nature. If you want a more technical, objective approach to concrete solutions and discussions on this matter, then see for example these great books: Definition: Oh, and mi