Docker’s recent article “Do You Really Need Microservices?” delivers a good dose of pragmatism with regards to Microservices. The article doesn’t dismiss microservices outright— it acknowledges their value at massive scale — but it also hightlights an uncomfortable truth: most teams simply don’t operate at that scale.
What I particularly like are the warnings about hidden costs, the kind that reveal themselves after committing to the architecture and having to operati it over years and through a lot of releases. Operational overhead, debugging “fun” and the complexity of managing distributed systems aren’t just footnotes — they’re a true burden for teams without the resources to handle them properly.
Check it out: You Want Microservices—But Do You Need Them? | Docker
