dp.cx blog

A friend of mine told me a story recently that's been stuck in my head. His company made an acquisition, and along with it they inherited the acquired company's infrastructure. Most of it was fine. But one system stood out: a desktop NAS with a couple of drives striped in RAID 0, running the acquired company's financial system.

I watched a video recently about the hidden costs of microservices, and it put words to something I've been thinking about for a while. The video walks through the usual pitch - break the monolith apart, give each function its own service, deploy independently.