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The idea that an org that has hard time maintaining a properly structured monolith, will solve it's problems by shifting to building a distributed system was al

by qaq 4y ago

The idea that an org that has hard time maintaining a properly structured monolith, will solve it's problems by shifting to building a distributed system was always strange to me.

PartiallyTyped 4y ago
The distributed system has benefits that the monolith doesn't, like scalability and resilience to failures though it opens doors to new kinds of failures.
- qaq 4y ago
  Those are orthogonal. The only true limitation was absence of horizontally scalable DBMS which is no longer the case.
- roflyear 4y ago
  Monoliths can scale. My monolith doesn't crash if one endpoint is throwing errors :)
roflyear 4y ago
Amazing way to put it actually. You summarized it in a great way.