My Micro-Service is better than your Microservice
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” – Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park There’s something oddly satisfying about name-dropping architectural principles in a standup meeting. “Oh, we’re shifting to microservices,” someone says, and suddenly everyone’s eyebrows go up like Mike Ross just walked in at the end of a Suits episode—ready to solve a problem that, let’s be honest, he kind of created himself earlier. But let’s be real—half the time, microservices aren’t a genuine business need; they’re just résumé flair. A sprinkle of Kubernetes here, a whisper of container orchestration there, and suddenly your LinkedIn reads like a Netflix tech documentary. The Microservice Obsession Microservices are the cool kids on the architecture block. They scream “scale,” “modern,” “enterprise-level.” But in reality, most applications don’t need them. Especially not apps with region-specific use cases, predictable traffic, or well-scoped features. It’s the Schrödinger’s Complexity par...