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How the whole open source ecosystem is working fine and delivering software while depending upon each other for almost decades all the while not ever being in the same room and yet having no microservices?

I mean take your pick, anything open source be it desktop or web has a huge and deep dependency tree all the way down to libc.

Just wondering.

EDIT: Typos and desktop.



Someone does the integration work for you, that’s why it works. Try running some distro that just grabs the latest upstream versions and see how often things break.


And that's my point.


Open source projects rarely involve live services, or providing SaaS. In those situations I think microservices are much more helpful


But Microservices have nothing to do with scaling or deployment. The main selling point is that it scales across teams etc?


I think it's a bit of both IME. It helps a lot with deployment across teams.




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