A recent white paper from Google advocates for the replacement of microservices with a modular monolith that has strong module boundaries and a smart runtime able to run the components in a distributed environment. Is this a good idea? Alex explores the benefits, downsides, and potential problems that would come up from such a model. […]
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We noticed in our architecture courses that many developers that are moving from monoliths to distributed systems fail to realize that they are moving into a completely new realm, where other rules apply than those they know. In this video, we look at the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems and at the CAP theorem to
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The debate of microservices vs monoliths has been reignited by a blog post from the Amazon Prime Video Quality Analysis Team, detailing a case study of improved scalability and reduced operational costs after switching from a serverless architecture to a monolith. So are monoliths better than microservices or serverless? Does Amazon do things differently than
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Yesterday, I was the guest speaker for the Cloud Native Meetup Group from Bucharest. I gave a talk in Romanian about laws, principles, and practices for microservices architecture. Check out the recording below or on YouTube. If you’d like us to record the same talk in English, in studio settings, please let us know in
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It’s impossible to ignore the topic of microservices today. We hear about them from social media, conferences, specialized websites, books, framework vendors, communities, colleagues. It seems like they’re the only way to go. But are they? To answer this question, we first need to explore why are microservices so useful, what are their downsides and
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