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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 :)