--- title: "Microservices: Why Are We Doing This?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/microservices-why-are-we-doing-this--c6cz6vwke source_url: https://michaeldehaan.substack.com/p/microservices-why-are-we-doing-this type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2022-03-23T00:33:21.466Z updated: 2026-03-15T06:40:45.417Z tags: ["architecture", "general-programming", "monolith"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 13 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microservices: Why Are We Doing This? **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The trend to build every single application as a series of tiny web services that talk to each other is growing in prominence. Many people picking up this idea have not seen the times before and just assume this is a ‘best practice’ Microservices are, in that essence, a religious belief that we should approach with skepticism - as is true with many things in software. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@maxalthaus** · 0 upvotes > Nice thoughts. I understand the concept in general but would like to know how that works as an example. But i got an idea.Thank you ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#monolith](https://daily.dev/tags/monolith) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microservices-why-are-we-doing-this--c6cz6vwke)