[stefano_c]

> The thing that DHH is failing to mention is that Monoliths work great when your application looks something like Basecamp.

The thing that people fail to grasp is that (almost) everything DHH writes is in the context of "when your application looks something like Basecamp" :-) I've been following 37signals/Basecamp since 2002, I think (long before Rails) and they've always made it clear that their opinions/advice are _not_ universal, because they only speak from experience - _their_ experience. So, if you're not in a similar situation as theirs, then of course their arguments are going to look strawman-ish to you.

[0xCMP]

And while he does that to excuse himself from having to reiterate that later, the fact that he doesn't anyways leaves a reader by the end thinking "Damn, maybe he's right. Maybe all software should be this way." even when it shouldn't.

[jrochkind1]

> ...they've always made it clear...

Always? How about in the OP?