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Monolith vs Microservices: Starting With the Right Question

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The monolith vs microservices debate has produced more heat than light over the past decade. Both sides have oversimplified. “Monoliths don’t scale” is demonstrably false — StackOverflow ran a monolith for years serving massive traffic. “Microservices are only for large teams” ignores the many small teams that have shipped them successfully.

The real question is not which architecture is better in the abstract. It’s which architecture fits your current constraints: your team size, your organizational structure, your operational maturity, and your actual scaling requirements.

The Modular Monolith: An Architecture Pattern That Deserves More Attention

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The software industry has a microservices fixation. Over the last decade, “monolith” became almost a pejorative, and teams moved to distributed architectures before they had the scale, team size, or operational maturity to justify them.

The result has been widespread over-engineering: systems that are harder to understand, harder to debug, harder to change, and more expensive to operate — not because distributed systems are inherently bad, but because the problems they solve weren’t actually present.