Category: Hot Takes

I spent three years convinced that microservices were the answer to everything. Every new project, every side project, every internal tool — I’d break it down into services. API gateway here, auth service there, notification service over there. Then I burned out. Not from the architecture itself, but from the overhead. Let me tell you…

My microservices origin story I used to roll my eyes every time someone mentioned microservices. “Just use a monolith,” I’d say. “You’re overcomplicating things.” And for years, I was right. Most startups don’t need microservices. They need working features. But then my side project grew. What started as a simple REST API became something bigger….

Three months ago, I replaced a PostgreSQL database with a single CSV file. The app got faster, simpler, and our team stopped spending weekends fixing deployment issues. The Situation We had a small internal dashboard. It tracked employee requests, managed approvals, and stored some basic analytics. Nothing fancy. But somehow, this “simple” app required: A…

The Microservices Trap I used to think microservices were the answer to everything. Small services,独立部署, easy to scale — what could go wrong? I pushed for microservices on three different projects in my first few years as a backend developer. Now I look back and realize: for small projects, it was overkill. Big time. What…