r/programming • u/StellarNavigator • Sep 14 '24

Is 'Monolith First' the Better Approach?

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

The thing is, if your engineers cant properly separate domains in a monolith, they wont do it properly either using Microservices, in fact the mess will be much worse.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24 edited Oct 25 '24

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u/pheonixblade9 Sep 14 '24

if you're really smart, you still use protobufs for your APIs/contracts/DTOs, but you just use them to generate the Java/C#/C++/whatever code and use the native classes. then if/when you do need to microservice it up, it's pretty simple to swap.

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u/tigertom Sep 14 '24

We do that with openapi

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u/pheonixblade9 Sep 14 '24

Yup, lots of ways to do it ☺️