Re:I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
by heavenlyblue on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:42AM
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I am yet to see a single monolith that doesn't deal with exactly the same issue itself.
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Re:I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
by pc86 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:14AM
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Aren't monoliths by definition not distributed?
Re:I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
by heavenlyblue on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:26AM
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A true monolith is like a true function - it's absolutely useless because everything it does is pure and therefore it can't interact with reality at all.
In less metaphorical terms: you still need to sync external APIs, sync filesystem with the database, deploy to S3 as you don't want to saturate your web workers, or have conflicts in your parallel red-blue deployments.
If your monolith doesn't do anything I had just described then you probably aren't doing anything exciting anyway so it's quite unlikely that you've got a lot to say about software architecture.