Re:Is there any place for monoliths in 2021? (2020)
by Spivak on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:39PM
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If we go with your definition then my app is a monolith with S3 and SQS which doesn't help me pinpoint where the potentially bad architecture thing is.
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Re:Is there any place for monoliths in 2021? (2020)
by scottious on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:56PM
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yeah -- your app is coupled to those services. I've definitely written code before that depended on a third party API only to have that API break on me.
Granted, this is not something to worry about with S3 or SQS.
> If we go with your definition then my app is a monolith with S3 and SQS
okay sure, I agree that calling your app a monolith with S3 and SQS is ridiculous.
The point is that we all may think that we're writing another S3 or SQS when we write our own micro-services. However, in practice maintaining a stable, backwards compatible, public API like that is quite costly and we usually end up re-implementing function calls as HTTP requests and then calling it "loosely coupled".