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0 pointscasperb1y ago0 comments

These blanked statements about monoliths are what made every junior dev think that microservices are the only solution.

If you cannot make a clean monolith, I have never seen any evidence that the same team can make good microservices. It is just the same crap, but distributed.

The last 2 years I see more and more seasoned devs who think the opposite: monoliths are better for most projects.

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The_Colonel1y ago

> It is just the same crap, but distributed.

Yes, but also - more difficult to refactor, more difficult to debug (good luck tracking a business transaction over multiple async services), slower with network overhead, lack of ACID transactions... Microservices solve problems which few projects have, but adds a huge amount of complexity.

baq1y ago

monoliths are the postgres of architectures - keep it simple until you really can't, not until you think you can't.

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