https://dplabs.tech/tags/distributed-systems/ Recent content in Distributed-Systems on dplabs — Software Engineering & Technology Consultancy Hugo en-us Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/monolith-vs-microservices/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/monolith-vs-microservices/ <p>The monolith vs microservices debate has produced more heat than light over the past decade. Both sides have oversimplified. &ldquo;Monoliths don&rsquo;t scale&rdquo; is demonstrably false — StackOverflow ran a monolith for years serving massive traffic. &ldquo;Microservices are only for large teams&rdquo; ignores the many small teams that have shipped them successfully.</p> <p>The real question is not which architecture is better in the abstract. It&rsquo;s which architecture fits your current constraints: your team size, your organizational structure, your operational maturity, and your actual scaling requirements.</p> https://dplabs.tech/blog/distributed-systems-problems/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/distributed-systems-problems/ <p>Every system that communicates over a network is a distributed system, and distributed systems fail in ways that single-process applications don&rsquo;t. This is not opinion — it&rsquo;s physics. Networks drop packets. Clocks drift. Services restart. Disks fail. These things happen regardless of how carefully you write your application code.</p> <p>The teams that get distributed systems right don&rsquo;t eliminate these failures. They design so that their systems remain correct despite them.</p>