Have your teams use façade pattern and you no longer need microservices to "isolate it"
But you're probably not the person I should telling this, developers aren't usually in charge of that.
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When we get consultants in to speedboat a new system, we give them their own separate service. Saves a lot of time and de-risks our beautiful monolith.
And on pricing specifically, both shitty and good consultancies charge about the same. The ones that charge well below market are an outlier that will guarantee bad product - those are to be avoided.
If hacker news is correct, microservices is the #1 worst idea of software engineering.
And whoever promotes them is either a kid with no experience or a complete moron.
If you have a problem with bad consultants then solve that. Trying to solve it by jumping into microservices you will just have bad consultants writing your microservices equally badly, or even worse.
One intern was told to deploy the app and I guess he made a mistake and updated k8 configs which deleted all the pods. Tell me how code reviews are supposed to catch it.
If you think "why not restrict config actions" etc, it's because the dev can go there and tweak those actions too. And each step added means less velocity of development. It's a game of cat and mouse. With isolation, you can limit the blast radius and loss of revenue.
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> One intern was told to deploy the app and I guess he made a mistake and updated k8 configs which deleted all the pods. Tell me how code reviews are supposed to catch it.
These sound contradictory to me. Part of having automated CI/CD, is not having to manually deal with k8s to do a regular deploy.
So you don’t have a staging environment to check config changes before deploying to prod? Or you don't put k8s manifests (or helm charts or whatever)in source control and just update prod through CLI? And you let interns do it alone?
Your problem isn't interns, it's a terrible deployment processs with weak controls. Even senior engineers are going to break prod regularly in conditions like that.