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Re:Monolith First (2015) by Daishiman on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:34AM (#14789491)
> I've experienced the opposite: you get traction with a monolith, and when its time to expand and scale, you find yourself with a massive kludge that makes it hard and slow to make progress.

If you have a team that can't make a monolith scale because of kludges, that says more about the team than the monoliths.

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Re:Monolith First (2015) by sanderjd on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:19PM (#14791516)
sigh this cliche adds little to the discussion. You could say the same from the other side: "if you have a team that can't make microservices work because of tangled service dependencies, that says more about the team than the microservices". That also adds little to the discussion.

Different architectural choices lead to different challenges. Different teams in different organizations will rise to those challenges with different degrees of success. But it's still worth thinking about the trade offs of the different architectures from the perspective of what they make easier and harder.

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