Stop Doing Microservices

Text on the meme

STOP DOING MICROSERVICES • CONCERNS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SEPARATED • YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR 600 INSTANCES OF THE USER SERVICE • Wanted to organise your codebase? We had a tool for that: it was called “FOLDERS” • “Yes please ask the user service to ask the birthday service to ask the date service if it is MY BIRTHDAY. Please deploy with ZERO downtime” – Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Developers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the usage data and personal information we gave them (This is REAL Architecture, done by REAL Developers) ????? ??????? ??????????????? “Hello I would like to debug the [illegible diagram] please” They have played us for absolute fools

What it means

A satirical presentation slide attacks the overuse of microservices and distributed system architecture. It jokes that simple concerns have been split into absurdly separate services, while developers produce incomprehensible architecture diagrams and demand access to user data. The meme is used as a reaction to unnecessary complexity, overengineering, and architecture that makes debugging nearly impossible.

Objects

presentation slide / слайд презентации large headline / крупный заголовок bullet-point list / список с маркерами architecture diagram / архитектурная диаграмма microservice boxes / блоки микросервисов database diagram / схема базы данных network graph / сетевая схема small flowcharts / маленькие блок-схемы text caption / текстовая подпись light blue background / светло-голубой фон black text / чёрный текст red question marks / красные вопросительные знаки