Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Contrary to microservice cargo cult, it's possible to build a relative monolith that scales infinitely. The bottleneck is the db, but if you have a schema where data is easily sharded you can scale it infinitely.

There's plenty of giant monoliths that scale fine. Like Google's analytics and gmail. If you have a database that can scale microservices are more about isolating code between different teams than any performance advantage




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: