[mzz80]

You’re not looking beyond the most trivial services. Most complex applications are best designed and scaled through multiple services.

For example, how do you handle long running asynchronous processing, distributed pub sub, or services that have widely different performance and scaling characteristics?

If you haven’t seen this, it might be time to start looking for a more interesting job.

[choeger]

I did not say that you usually need multiple services for scaling. I just noticed that the end architecture looks roughly the same to me once you go into the cloud.

For a truly distributed system just look at a distributed hashtable. You can do it with a cloud provider, but it somehow contradicts the point of a DHT to control the nodes, does it not?