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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by unscaled on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:53PM (#13441437)
Just putting libraries that were never designed to scale up behind RPC usually won't help you scale. These libraries tend to work with mutable, stateful objects and don't have any groundwork in place for partitioning.

That doesn't mean you can't scale up from a monolith (even one without clean interfaces) - every startup growth story is a testament otherwise - but it's never as as easy as strapping an RPC layer over your library.

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