IGNITE: Are you still doing microservices?
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Argues that microservices often trade simplicity for tool sprawl, using the OpenTelemetry demo app as an example of intentionally mixed technologies that boost complexity; notes concrete losses from splitting a monolith — no longer a single version vs 20 independent services, separate CI builds, harder debugging and monitoring, and added service discovery — and admits a real upside: easy Rust and Redpanda experiments and polyglot deployments, so the claim is that the unit of deployment is over-discussed compared with actual system tradeoffs.
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