The real reason for cloud micro service architecture is legacy code.
Imagine you’ve inherited a 10 year old PHP monolith. The code is almost indecipherable and the business wants new features in a timely and predictable manner.
The easiest way is to implement the new features in their own micro services.
Sure it makes the complexity problem worse, but that’s a problem for someone else in five years time.
Imagine you’ve inherited a 10 year old PHP monolith. The code is almost indecipherable and the business wants new features in a timely and predictable manner.
The easiest way is to implement the new features in their own micro services.
Sure it makes the complexity problem worse, but that’s a problem for someone else in five years time.