[staofbur]

You can, hence my comment about silos. The interface is rarely well defined enough to be able to abstract it over a network boundary from experience. One of the things I see in a lot of monoliths is leaky abstractions and they are really difficult to reign in.

We tend to go for throwing related web front and and API endpoints into the same ball of mud silo and back end that directly with the storage and cache services. We scale those silos up and partition across tenants too. I think a couple of the silos are around the 1 million LoC size now as well.

[eropple]

Fair enough. In places where I've had to deal with that, I was in the code review seat ahead of time and was generally able to go "no no no, let's not do that"--but I can see how stuff can decay.

[staofbur]

I'm always late to the party. I'm the cleanup team :)