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How “microservices” trended on Hacker News

“Microservices” was mentioned 29,425 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2022 with 694 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “microservices” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “microservices”

1. 1.Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar 1,277 points · 753 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend 1,230 points · 445 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 993 points · 441 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? 639 points · 368 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.How we ended up with microservices 479 points · 90 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices 443 points · 116 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Forget monoliths vs. microservices: cognitive load is what matters 430 points · 91 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Enough with the microservices 408 points · 216 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Learn Docker by building a Microservice 404 points · 83 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes 384 points · 85 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With 338 points · 153 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture? 329 points · 201 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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