
Microservices vs Monolith for Startups: Stop Overengineering
Why your startup should start with a monolith, when microservices actually make sense, and how to avoid the architecture astronaut trap.
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Why your startup should start with a monolith, when microservices actually make sense, and how to avoid the architecture astronaut trap.

The monolith-versus-microservices debate often feels less like engineering and more like a religious...

When learning system design, we are almost always fed the exact same doctrine: start with one API +...

Every enterprise with a legacy monolith knows the symptoms. A single bug takes down the entire...
Wenige Debatten in der Software sind so ausgelutscht — und so missverstanden — wie Monolith gegen...
Few debates in software are as tired — or as misunderstood — as monolith versus microservices. One...

Most startups don't fail because they chose a monolith. They fail because they never built something...
The Modular Monolith Building maintainable systems alone requires different tradeoffs than...

Pillar article sul monolite modulare: come organizzare un'applicazione monolitica in moduli indipendenti con confini chiari.

3 services, 1 PostgreSQL, shared Redis, one docker-compose — and the illusion of independence. How to spot a distributed monolith in your own architecture, when it's actually useful, and when it's time for real separation.

I’ve spent way too many late nights arguing about whether a "legacy" monolith is actually the problem...

A Rails app grows. Changes in one corner start breaking another, two teams keep colliding in the same...