A curated list of public stories related to migrating away from microservices, usually back towards monoliths. This is not intended to be anti-microservices. Architecture must be carefully considered based on the system's context rather than ideology either way.
But, it's useful to track the changing design trends over time and this respository is intended to collect any stories that emerge of companies deciding to transform their architecture away from microservices after trying it.
Invision
Istio
- https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2021/05/09520758/1wiMujJmZ3i
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8BxI07u-mby5f5rCruwF7odSXgb9G8-C9W5hQtSIAg/edit#
- https://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/istio-as-an-example-of-when-not-to-do-microservices/
Segment
- https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/
- https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-monolith-antipatterns/
- https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/microservices-back-again/
Uber
- https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1247132806041546754
- https://lobste.rs/s/mc3k1c/at_uber_we_re_moving_many_our#c_f8vacm
- https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/
Unnamed Healthcare Company
- Give me back my monolith by Craig Kerstiens: https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-monolith/
- Monoliths are the Future by Kelsey Hightower: https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future
- Monolith First by Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html