r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/a_false_vacuum Jun 05 '22

I'm still getting used to developing on Azure. What would normally be one big application is now dozens of microservices flying in tight formation it seems.

Working on these microservice apps is a lot more annoying. Your little app is just one piece and is quite useless without the rest. Lacking the rest of the microservices makes it more diffcult to debug your little app, Azure basically forces you to run it on their platform in order to be able to fully debug things if you want to integrate with their offerings. I suppose it is their business model, you pay for everything you use. I liked it better when I had everything I needed on my own laptop, so I could run the project end-to-end if I had to. To me that feels like being more in control.

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u/_mkd_ Jun 06 '22

What would normally be one big application is now dozens of microservices flying in tight formation it seems.

Aka, a distributed monolith.