GitHub CTO – Biggest architectural mistake was going full microservice
A lot of people may not remember this, but the microservices bandwagon was pushed heavily by Heroku, which (at the time) was a ubiquitous and influential platform among devs working at startups.<p>Why did they care? Because their particular hosting model at the time really couldn't handle complex architecture, so microservices speaking to each other over HTTP was the only way to do things.<p>The arguments in favor of microservices at least <i>sounded</i> good enough that they were adopted at a lot of orgs before anyone actually needed the supposed benefits, and it turned into a big mess.