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Microservices are trendy. But if you build them wrong, you don't get "scalability"—you get a "Distributed Monolith." A Distributed Monolith is just as rigid as your old codebase, except now every function call requires a network request and has 50ms ...

For a long time, microservices were treated almost like a rite of passage. If a company wanted to be taken seriously in modern engineering circles, it needed services, containers, and a distributed architecture. Monoliths, on the other hand, were fra...
