[rambojohnson]

Premature distribution killed the startup, not microservices. You split the system before the boundaries were real, paid the tax in latency and coordination, and skipped the hard parts that make it viable: event-driven boundaries, local read models, and boring failure handling and comprehensive logging. Start with a modular monolith, earn your boundaries, then extract.

[hinkley]

Ask your coworkers how many of them got any formal training in distributed systems in college. You’re going to find out it’s not many. So far I haven’t found anyone who didn’t go to Berkeley or UIUC. WTF is going on with universities?