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nicodjimenezlast Friday at 5:35 PM1 replyview on HN

My main take on microservices at this point is that you only want microservices to isolate failure modes and for independent scaling. Most IO bound logic can live in a single monolith.


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9rxlast Friday at 7:43 PM

It is simpler than that. You only want microservices in the same cases you want services (i.e. SaaS). Meaning, when your team benefits from an independent third-party building and maintaining it. The addition of "micro" to "service" indicates that you are reaching out to a third-party that is paid by the same company instead of paying a separate company.