> it's orders of magnitude better to deploy lots of smaller identical monoliths than it is to try and build and deploy lots of services and manage the contracts

> it's orders of magnitude better to deploy lots of smaller identical monoliths than it is to try and build and deploy lots of services and manage the contracts and complexity between them. This article from 2003 by Martin Fowler is exactly about that: http://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966 http://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966