Microservices: don’t use them yet!

Here is my story:

• Worked at a startup. One technical founder there.
• They had a Rails Monolith working and running.
• Took me on to implement a 3rd party integration that takes remote feeds and ETL record into database. (Pilot requirement)
• Pilot is a success! More funding unlocked! Technical founder starts to read up on the latest tech buzz words.

AWS/Docker/Microservices

Oh no. They are here.

“The pilot was a success. We need to hire fast and 10x our deployments this year!”

“I will be able to get a remote team up and running.” (To his credit, he did pull this off)

“We should change the following to meet the demand”

• Change from Rackspace to AWS.
• Change from Rails to Express.
• Change from MongoDb to Mysql.
• Split backend into microservices.
• Rewrite frontend from Rails to React.
• Rewrite deployment from Nginx+Passenger to Docker.
• Not just Node.JS, use es6 with babel.

You and what army?

At that point, we have 3 engineers (counting yours truly) in the bay area. And, a team of 5 remote: