The Daily WTF

It’s the last week of the year, and as per tradition, we look back at some of the best stories of the year. We start with this charmer, from February, a… little slice of brillant architecture. —Remy

“Why aren’t we using microservices?”

It was an odd way to start a meeting, but it got Mr. TA‘s attention. TA was contracting with a client, and sitting in a meeting with their senior architects. TA and one of his peers exchanged a glance and a small eye-roll. They knew exactly what had happened: Alvin, the senior architect, had learned about a new fad.

The application that TA’s team was working on, and the core product which the client offered, was a pretty simple data-driven application. It was, at its core, one SQL Server database, a simple front-end, and could easily run reliably off of a moderately powerful server. With co-location and rackspace

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