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Sergiy Yevtushenko • Edited

I really impressed with a number of sources you're providing to prove your point of view. Unfortunately none of them explain how it is possible to have same application built as monolith and as microservices without any changes in architecture.

As for "cloud architecture patterns": they unavoidable once you switch to distributed system and let services communicate directly via unreliable channels. These patterns are not specific to microservices and often used without them. Moreover, resilience and other cloud-specific properties are achieved by means external to application and application architecture (various deployment/orchestration platforms, cloud services, etc.)

While talking/reading about microservices I often have feeling that a lot of things from different levels/layers are mixed into one big ball of mud and then declared as "advantages of the microservices architecture".

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David Whitney

I feel like you're conflating software architecture and systems architecture here to be honest.

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Sergiy Yevtushenko • Edited

Well, it's not me, but proponents of "microservices architecture".

Sorry, don't want to look rude. Just too tired with microservices histeria which often causes so much harm although creates a lot of jobs for devops.