EPISODE · Jun 19, 2024 · 59 MIN
Monoliths vs Microservices
from Picture Me Coding · host Erik Aker and Mike Mull
Did you ever wake up one day and realize your microservices architecture had transformed into a large distributed monolith? Did your boss come to your house and did your family try to disown you? Mike and Erik have lived that story too! In this episode they wade boldly into the microservices vs monoliths discussion and Mike makes the bold claim that doing microservices isn't even an architecture! Articles We Talked AboutMartin Fowler's definition"How Engineers Can Accidentally Create Distributed Monoliths"https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/Monolithic vs. Microservice Architecture: A Performance and Scalability Evaluation | IEEE Journals & MagazineEven Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservicesSend us Fan Mail
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Did you ever wake up one day and realize your microservices architecture had transformed into a large distributed monolith? Did your boss come to your house and did your family try to disown you? Mike and Erik have lived that story too! In this episode they wade boldly into the microservices vs monoliths discussion and Mike makes the bold claim that doing microservices isn't even an architecture! Articles We Talked About Martin Fowler's definition"How Engineers Can Accidentally Crea...
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