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parasubvert on April 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

The general view of microservices was largely invented out of thin air ;) when you look at Martin Fowler’s wiki or Adrian Cockcroft’s presentations which were the originating popularizers of the term , it was all a reasonable refinement of SOA.

But then you’d get some that would make bizarre claims like a microservices must be under 100 lines of code. :shrug:

Retric on April 30, 2020 [–]

People where not pulling that from thin air.

Cockroft’s Rule of Thumb

Can complete a service in two weeks or less Completed = coded, tested, and in production • Fits in “one or two developers’ heads”

At that rate you quickly hit hundreds of services.

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