30/04/2026
Have you heard of "The Microservice Hangover"??
The pitch that made complete sense in 2019 because of smaller services, faster teams, nobody stepping on each other...... but nobody mentioned the part where five years later you've got a single failed transaction that takes three engineers and half an afternoon to trace, and an on-call rotation that's quietly become the thing your best people bring up when they're explaining why they're leaving.
Distributed systems come with a maintenance bill nobody budgeted for, and this is the honest conversation about what to do about it.
Read more here: https://zurl.co/LeH9u