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The young disciple entered the temple and prostrated 3 times before the master and asked - "I wish to know the way of Microservices. I wish to glean insight on how to build them as it will let us scale and build rapidly".

The master jumped off his chair and landed head-first on the floor.

"What happened!" ask the disciple.

"I'm learning how to sky dive" replied the master.

Upon hearing this, the disciple was enlightened.

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This is so dang funny. I don't even get what the message is supposed to be exactly but I just about fell out of my chair laughing.

Message:

You/we lack the proper (production runtime) environment conducive to practicing and learning this particular technique.

Are you sure that the message isn't "micro services don't help you build mega services"?

You cant sky dive till you reach an sufficient altitude.

You cant build microservices until youve built a monolith first.

bingo

well, you _can_, but IME having a reference monolith to excavate will likely net you significantly more reliable, holistic, and consistent requirements/specifications information than whatever the fuck comes out of the product guy/gal's mouth

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