Is it really for "fun"?
Or is it to satisfy the ideals of some CTO/VPE disconnected from the real world that wants architecture to be done a certain way?
I still remember doing systems design interviews a few years ago when microservices were in vogue, and my routine was probing if they were ok with a simpler monolith or if they wanted to go crazy on cloud-native, serverless and microservices shizzle.
It did backfire once on a cloud infrastructure company that had "microservices" plastered in their marketing, even though the people interviewing me actually hated it. They offered me an IC position (which I told them to fuck off), because they really hated how I did the exercise with microservices.
Before that, it almost backfired when I initially offered a monolith for a (unbeknownst to me) microservice-heavy company. Luckily I managed to read the room and pivot to microservice during the 1h systems design exercise.
EDIT: Point is, people in positions of power have very clear expectations/preferences of what they want, and it's not fun burning political capital to go against those preferences.
Or is it to satisfy the ideals of some CTO/VPE disconnected from the real world that wants architecture to be done a certain way?
I still remember doing systems design interviews a few years ago when microservices were in vogue, and my routine was probing if they were ok with a simpler monolith or if they wanted to go crazy on cloud-native, serverless and microservices shizzle.
It did backfire once on a cloud infrastructure company that had "microservices" plastered in their marketing, even though the people interviewing me actually hated it. They offered me an IC position (which I told them to fuck off), because they really hated how I did the exercise with microservices.
Before that, it almost backfired when I initially offered a monolith for a (unbeknownst to me) microservice-heavy company. Luckily I managed to read the room and pivot to microservice during the 1h systems design exercise.
EDIT: Point is, people in positions of power have very clear expectations/preferences of what they want, and it's not fun burning political capital to go against those preferences.