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by giantg2 1887 days ago
I actually prefer a monolith compared to the way we do microservices. One or two big apps to own vs ten microservices or apps that require coordinating with others. It's really just a duplication of paperwork and other overhead processes.
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UK-Al05 1887 days ago
We don't require any coordination with ours. It's low cost for us.

We may make the occasional announcement that v5 our api is coming soon which has x features based on feedback from other teams. Then announce when we've released it.

Its a product, and we own it.

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giantg2 1887 days ago
That sounds nice. My most recent elevation involved coordinating with 5 other services to stop/restart/reprocess items with a couple deploys between the 5. Had to be off-hours too. Sort of normal for us.
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UK-Al05 1887 days ago
You have all the symptoms of a distributed monolith.
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ex_amazon_sde 1887 days ago
> vs ten microservices or apps that require coordinating with others

That's called the "distributed monolith" and it's worse than a monolith.

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