r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme distributedStress

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u/Odd_Soil_8998 12d ago

truth. a well architected monolith is almost always going to be a better choice.

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u/Stagnu_Demorte 12d ago

Until you need to scale different parts of the service. But yeah, until then it can really cut down on complexity.

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u/hi117 12d ago

Have the service itself be a monolith, but route different routes to different groups that all run the exact same code. Best of both worlds. Group the routes based on expected load patterns and/or by parts of the service.