CTO: I heard about this great architecture of microservices. What is it exactly?
Me: it's building many servers with one responsbility each.
CTO: That sound good. But let keep it simple and build only one big microservice.
Me: 😲
(True story from a comapny a worked for)

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Sounds almost like my current one! Sometimes I wonder how people like this get on such functions

@krates in the case of the one that I had, he was great server administrator and the guy who was working more than anyone else in the company. That made him qualified according to the CEO.

The servers do not have one responsibility each, the services do.

@nocgod right. The ability to scale horizontally is to run 1 service on multi instances and we can run several services on one instance. I just talked in a way he will understand.

@binygal by simplifying it you explained it incorrectly. The better explanation would be that this method helps better utilize the the server resources better and enhance the code quality and scalability, thus reducing the maintenance costs...
most managers speak money not technology/methodology (unfortunately)

If you actually demonstrate the benefits to your engineering organization and the business as a whole, then moving to microservices https://alpacked.io/blog/... will help you grow, scale, and make money.

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