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True, but existence proofs are useful if you don’t extrapolate too much from them. Ie you _can_ be a unicorn with a monolith. I think it’s not so useful to loo
by theptip 6y ago
True, but existence proofs are useful if you don’t extrapolate too much from them. Ie you _can_ be a unicorn with a monolith.
I think it’s not so useful to look at 30-person monoliths though, as you say. I’m sure there are 30-person startups that are jumping the gun and building microservice architectures? Don’t do that. First build the monolith.
But I think what you are getting at in the latter part, and I agree: the question is whether there are 100, or 1000 employee-company monoliths. I don’t know of any, I’d guess there are some examples, but I’d be comfortable wagering that they are much rarer the bigger you get.
- papito 6y agoInstagram is still a monolith. They started breaking out some high-load things for sure, but only once it makes data-driven sense. https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-an-instagram-story-8f498ab71a0c https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...
- afarrell 6y ago> you _can_ be a unicorn with a monolith Even if another company can do it...that does not mean that you can. Know thyself. Jocko Willink can lead a team effectively on 5 hours of sleep a night. If I try to do that, I lose my grip on the fabric reality and the meanings of words. Know thyself.