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  • Tech people tend to be very black-and-white when discussing ideology. Reality is more forgiving.

    If you can get your hands on it, the opening chapters of “Practical Event Driven Microservices Architecture” by Hugo Rocha gives a reasonable high level view of when you might decide to break a domain out of a monolith. I wouldn’t exactly consider it the holy grail of technical reading, but he does a good job explaining the pros and cons of monolith v microservices and a bit of exploration on those middle grounds.


  • The reality is, as always, “it depends”.

    If you’re a smaller team that needs to do shit real fast, a monolith is probably your best bet.

    Do you have hundreds of devs working on the same platform? Maybe intelligently breaking out your domains into distinct services makes sense so your team doesn’t get bogged down.

    And in the middle of the spectrum you have modular domain centric monoliths, monorepo multi-service stuff, etc.

    It’s a game of tradeoffs and what fits best for your situation depends on your needs and challenges. Often going with an imperfect shared technical vision is better than a disjointed but “state of the art” approach.


  • I honestly think it’s the internet as a whole that’s done that to us.

    You used to be able to not know things, but now I’m expected to have encyclopedic knowledge of every factor going into any individual choice I make as though I’ve gotta min/max my life. I think the expectation that everyone needs to have an opinion on everything because “the information is available, just Google it!”, combined with the fact that we have a limited rate of knowledge consumption and limited bandwidth has led to people just skimming information. Shortest path to having an “informed” opinion on every topic, because God forbid you don’t know something online.

    I think in order to increase our media literacy we must return to partial ignorance.