Matt Ranney, a Principal Engineer at DoorDash, recently gave an interview called Microservices are Technical Debt. I had the opportunity to work with Matt at DoorDash, and we had a lot of conversations on this topic 1. Are microservices technical debt? I was strongly in the less-but-better-microservices camp at DoorDash. Like many things, there’s a balance to be struck. Microservices 2 are critical to any web-scale system. That said, when you start to microservice all the things you tend to...
