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Software Architecture & Scaling · 12 min read
4 weeks ago
Split a Monolith Only When You Actually Need To
Microservices sound like the grown-up choice, so teams split too early and inherit a distributed mess. This guide covers the real cost of splitting a monolith, the modular monolith that is usually the smarter default, when you genuinely need to split, and how.
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Software Architecture & Scaling · 7 min read
6 months ago
We Thought Microservices Would Scale Us Faster. Instead, It Slowed the Team and Burned Money
Microservices sounded like the right move. Everyone was doing it. Six months later, delivery slowed, costs went up, and simple bugs took days to trace. Here’s what actually went wrong and how we fixed it without blowing up the product.
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