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Re:Distributed Systems Reading List by znpy on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:40AM (#25346628)
Ah, i kinda agree. My former employer developed and sold an editorial suite architected in about 1999-2000 around the SOA model (along with corba) and later evolved through the years.

So basically some monoliths playing together.

I've always been admiring that design and how much it could do and handle with so little resources.

Most times for a whole editorial newsroom a single 48c/128gb machine can be more than enough.

They were particularly smart on avoiding relational databases and sticking to an object database (Versant oodbms, another mostly unknown marvel of software engineering).

That software, even with its shortcomings, was really a great piece of software engineering.

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Re:Distributed Systems Reading List by flavius29663 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:44PM (#25348699)
People today don't realize how cheap you can get a really upscaled machine. In Azure, a 48 core, 192GB machine is 2000 USD a month. This is nothing compared to upscaling your app on 10 servers and 20 services, with a lot of overhead, maintenance and dev time.

If you can get away with a monolith, it's the way to go, as long as you leave room to quickly grow horizontally as well, if needed.

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