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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by yibg on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:35PM (#22194610)
This isn’t a new problem to microservices though, although maybe it’s amplified. Reporting was challenging before microservices became popular too with data from different sources. Different products, offline data sources etc that all had to be put together. The whole ETL, data warehousing stuff.

In the end everything involves tradeoffs. If you need to partition your data to scale, or for some other reason need to break up the data, then reporting potentially becomes a secondary concern. In this case maybe delayed reporting or a more complex reporting workflow is worth the trade off.

Re:Monoliths Are the Future by cobookman on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:43PM (#22194688)
+1, Informatica was founded in 1993. Teradata in 1979. These are not new problems.

DataWarehousing has drastically improved recently with the separation of Storage & Compute. A single analyst's query impacting the entire Data Warehouse is a problem that will in the next few years be something of the past.