Track 17 — Technical Framework Comparisons
17-5: Monolith vs Microservices
The architectural decision that costs $2M to reverse. When to split the monolith.
1 Lessons~45 min
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Conway's law and team topology
- ✓ The latency penalty of distributed networks
- ✓ Horizontal vs Vertical scaling economics
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Premature Microservices
Startouts building microservices from Day 1 incur a massive DevOps and integration penalty. The rule of thumb: do not extract a service until the team boundaries necessitate it.
Distributed Latency
The added network hop time for inter-service communication.
+10-50ms
📝 Exercise
Calculate the DevOps overhead of your current microservices architecture vs a monolith.
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