- There’s an ever-going debate between proponents of both microservices and monoliths on the advantages of one approach over the other. In recent times, the opinion seems to be shifting towards pragmatism rather than technical supremacy of one of the philosophies.
- Pragmatically speaking, monoliths make more sense till the time you’ve reached a planetary scale.
- Micro-services provide more opportunity for engineers to shine on and figure out distributed computing; but the end goal of any business is to provide value in lowest cost, and monoliths are better on that front.
- todo Go deeper. Micro-services proliferated in ZIRP-era owing to startups flush with money and engineer’s search of complexity