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So where's "the costs of monoliths" post? They don't show up here, because everyone is out there cluelessly implementing microservices and only sees those problems. If everyone were out there cluelessly implementing monoliths, we'd see a lot of "monoliths bad" posts.

People don't understand that these systems lead to the same amount of problems. It's like asking an elephant to do a task, or asking 1000 mice. Guess what? Both are going to have problems performing the task - they're just different problems. But you're not going to get away from having to deal with problems.

You can't just pick one or the other and expect your problems to go away. You will have problems either way. You just need to pick one and provide solutions. If 'what kind of architecture' is your biggest hurdle, please let me work there.



The 8 trillion monolith bad posts are why we are now over inundated with microservices. This is the blowback when people are realizing the cost benefit didn't work for them




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