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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by ethbro on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:28PM (#22861673)
> Instead of stuffing everything into a monolith with plugins, split it out into individual composeable units with minimal features.

This feels like microservices-for-everything as a product.

Then you've designed a platform, with a reference combination. Which carries its own set of challenges and over-complications.

There's something to be said for a clean, batteries-included product... with a way to hack the hell out of it.

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Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ... by arghwhat on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:26PM (#22867898)
Microservices is a polar extreme to monoliths.

It's not about making each macro-service into 1000 micro-services. It's about making your macro-services smaller, instead of all-consuming monoliths.

The problem is that monoliths will never be hackable. A LEGO-kit is hackable. A monolith just have hooks and connectors, but the product itself will always be static.

You can get things shipped as pre-assembled LEGO kits (both metaphoric or not)?

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