Service-Oriented vs. Monolith
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Welcome to the third edition of “Station Wagon Full of Tapes”. In this article I will focus on a different aspect of scaling for organizations; scaling teams.
The discussion around using service-oriented architecture vs. monolithic architecture has been around for a while now. Most teams do choose the microservices path since that’s the “industry standard” these days. However, monolithic designs still have their use and space, especially at an early stage of an idea or a product.
I had the luxury of working in codebases where both approaches were the standard. I am leaning for microservices. I have my reasons as to why in which I’ll share below. First, let’s talk about both architectural models.