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> at some point monoliths can get large enough that upgrading libraries or runtimes becomes an incredibly difficult problem Some languages (e.g. Go) make this
by letitbeirie 3y ago
> at some point monoliths can get large enough that upgrading libraries or runtimes becomes an incredibly difficult problem
Some languages (e.g. Go) make this easier than others by allowing two versions of the same import to coexist, but this is why we broke up our Django monolith a few jobs ago.
- mjr00 3y agoYeah, the library problem has some (ugly) solutions in some languages, like Go allowing multiple versions as you mention, or doing JAR shading in Java. But I don't think there's a (mainstream) language that solves the problem of partially upgrading the underlying runtime. If you've got a Java monolith, it either all runs on Java 7 or Java 8, can't really do in-between.