The Daily WTF

“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 costs, it could cost them a few thousand a month to operate.

But the senior engineers heard about the cloud. And they wanted everything in the cloud. And they wanted all the latest features that Azure had

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