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		PartiallyTyped on Jan 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microservices are hard The distributed system has benefits that the monolith doesn't, like scalability and resilience to failures though it opens doors to new kinds of failures.

roflyear on Jan 15, 2023 | [–]

Monoliths can scale. My monolith doesn't crash if one endpoint is throwing errors :)

qaq on Jan 11, 2023 | [–]

Those are orthogonal. The only true limitation was absence of horizontally scalable DBMS which is no longer the case.

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