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As someone said, microservices is a technical solution to a people problem. Devs don't want to talk to each other so they wall off behind their own API. Boom, no need to talk to each other. Ever. Or is there?

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Requiring everyone to talk to everyone so everyone has global context isn't just "devs don't want to talk to each other"; it is actually an information dissemination and coordination problem which scales non-linearly (at least n^2), and needs some kind of modularity to be tractable to normal humans.

Microservices are like modules but for SaaS rather than shrinkwrap, and are where you end up when you follow SLAs, encapsulation of resource consumption, etc. to their logical conclusion.

"Microservices" don't guarantee that everyone doesn't have to talk to everyone. Good thoughtful design is necessary regardless of how you're building/organizing/deploying/operating the code.

> scales non-linearly

Indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm

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