Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance

The shift towards microservices started gaining momentum in the early 2010s, as tech companies recognized the limitations of monolithic architectures. However, many companies such as Amazon (Prime Video), Invision, Istio and Segment are moving back to monolithic architectures. This article will explore why many organizations fail when transitioning to a microservices architecture.

What is a monolith?

A monolithic architecture is straightforward: The user requests data and all business logic and data reside within a single service. However, monolithic systems face challenges, such as limited scalability, difficulty with deploying updates and a vulnerability to single points of failure.

To address this, many organizations have attempted to transition to a microservices-based architecture to leverage advantages such as abstraction and encapsulation, faster deployment, easier maintenance and closer alignment of each service with team ownership.

Why microservices?

In an ideal microservices architecture, each business domain operates as its own independent service with ...