MICROSERVICES ARE NOT LEGO BLOCKS, THEY’RE EVEN BETTER THAN THAT!
Microservices are often compared to the easy click bricks of Lego. And while this makes for great
marketing, the truth is that microservices can bring more agility to the game
he building blocks of Lego are a common analogy that we use to talk about microservices – it pops up all over the place. But this can be misleading. Microservices are a lot more than static blocks.” Matt Bowers is head of the
professional solutions team for Sony’s European Professional Engineering division. He understands the excitement among content creators and broadcasters about cloud-based microservices – and the ability to creatively stack discrete services in configurations tailored to your own business needs can’t help but invite comparisons to everyone’s favourite Danish super-brand. “The Lego metaphor dates back to even before microservices,” continues Bowers. “There’s this dream of ‘if only we could make software like playing with simple static blocks.’ You can build all sorts of things very quickly, very intuitively. But Lego hasn’t changed since the original bricks were patented in 1958, whereas software is continually evolving and infinitely flexible.” We all want simplicity and ease of use, but shouldn’t let this perfectly natural desire obscure the dramatic potential of the tools we have available.
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