Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
The term &quot;Monolith&quot; was devised by people who wanted to brand microservices as newer and superior.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if in order to succeed these days you need to discredit and disparage your competition rather than simply having a better product, and that&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t buy into buzz words at all.<p>If it&#x27;s not broken, don&#x27;t fix it... Microservices are relatively new and unproven. The way the world has rushed to dive into microservice infrastructure only highlights reckless spending and waste that is characteristic of overpriced goods and high taxes that are constantly in turn thrust upon us, as consumers.<p>Microservice architecture is also inherently designed to lock a customer into very specific tools that make future migration to any other platform a very costly decision in most cases... Thereby locking a customer into platform-specific dependency. Microservices architecture also introduces the ability for providers to charge for each specific service as a utility... Instead of being charged for one single server annually, on microservices you can be charged for many individual components that run your app independently, and when usage skyrockets, it&#x27;s a sticker shock that you can only stop by going offline.<p>We have also seen enough failures and pain points within microservice and even cloud architectures over the past two years alone to raise questions about whether or not it it indeed a better solution.<p>We need to stop disparaging traditional (non-cloud) hosting and solutions that aren&#x27;t obsolete at all in this manner, and focus on what works, what is secure, and what is cost effective in order to stay sustainable into the future.<p>The more we allow marketing minds to take control of our IT decisions over reasonable technical minds, the more costly it will be to us all over time, no matter what salary we make. Bog tech firms will hate me for saying this, but any human in the chain can tell that reckless drive for weak&#x2F;vulnerable&#x2F;costly&#x2F;and over-complex IT solutions cannot be sustained as a viable long-term business sales strategy anyway.