Episode Details

Did you ever wake up one day and realize your microservices architecture had transformed into a large distributed monolith? Did your boss come to your house and did your family try to disown you? Mike and Erik have lived that story too!

In this episode they wade boldly into the microservices vs monoliths discussion and Mike makes the bold claim that doing microservices isn't even an architecture! 

Articles We Talked About

• Martin Fowler's definition
• "How Engineers Can Accidentally Create Distributed Monoliths"
• https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/
• Monolithic vs. Microservice Architecture: A Performance and Scalability Evaluation | IEEE Journals & Magazine
• Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

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