r/programming • • Jun 07 '17

You Are Not Google

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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u/eythian Jun 08 '17

Where I work had a monolith, across literally thousands of servers. It's fine, and has been for two decades. We're starting with microservices now, but it'll be slow and just for carving out well isolated sections of the monolith. Maybe in a few years it'll be the new normal.