ASK HN: WHY DO MESSAGE QUEUE-BASED ARCHITECTURES SEEM LESS POPULAR NOW? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

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There was a lot of hype around building distributed systems using message queues in the late 2000s and early 2010s. That hype seems to have disappeared. One of the reasons for this is because most companies have realized that they're too small for these 'scalability tricks'. Bigger single machines being available for more reasonable prices means that companies are fine running on less hardware. Most companies are better off building well-componentized monoliths that they can break off into independent services later if there's a reason to do so.