Sounds like some random consultant who wants to coin a new buzzword so they can force this upon organizations.
no thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why fight and avoid? Embrace and make money on the hype! I remember it was "APIs" everywhere. Before that it was "mobile first" everywhere. Before that it was "everything through XML". Plenty of opportunities! Don't miss the hype train!
I know this is sarcasm but this is the plague of the industry. It's mostly why we have poor software and why a lot of economic activity consists of adding cool new techniques one year, and then removing it again four years later.
Fashion driven industry.
It is so ironic to see microservices being hyped, when back in the Solaris golden days we had "The network is the computer" mantra.
Now we get people to rediscover CORBA and DCOM via gRPC.
Or being told how cool Web IDEs are, when again 30 years ago, we were sharing development servers via telnet and X Windows.
Or "pick your example"…
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#14So a collection of micro services is a “cell”. What’s a collection of cells called? An “organ”? Wake me up when we’re at the “ecosystem” level. :P
What’s a collection of cells called?
A tissue :D
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#16Pretty easy to dunk on this kind of thing as architectural wankery, but it can be useful for companies that need to build opinionated platforms on which business applications run.
I recently left a role at a company with ~4,000 AWS accounts and they will likely have ~20,000 within a couple of years. It's extremely helpful to see a nicely abstracted architecture that you can cherry pick from when building your platform.
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#17The concept have been mentioned by Amazon for years.
For reference see:
"AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures" https://youtu.be/swQbA4zub20
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#18I wish they had better icons, or have shared the SVG for a chance for others to put a different color schema on them, e.g. https://github.com/wso2/reference-architecture/blob/master/m...
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#19Re: Cell-Based Architecture
#20The concept have been mentioned by Amazon for years. For reference see: "AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures" https://youtu.be/swQbA4zub20
Yea my understanding is that cell based architecture got really big within AWS 6-7 years ago to make scaling more predictable.