microservices

Have you ever noticed that now we have embraced the micro-services architecture of doing things, instead of one big monolithic repository of code we have it all broken into smaller repositories of single/reduced responsibility... To share these little bits of wisdom we package them up into little parcels that we can import into 100s of other projects distributed across our services. Then, something goes wrong and we can't debug what is going on inside these little gems and we wonder why we did

Micro-services are becoming a "thing" now and are probably de-facto when someone begins a new project and are thinking about hosting in the cloud but where do you start when you have a brown field project. Now I don't have any hot answers or amazing insights here all I can do is describe what my first "micro-service" was and how it came into being. Over time the application was getting more use and the number of servers involved started to increase; we were using auto-scaling and the number of