Blog entries for Wednesday, 01 July 2026

About ten years ago, I wrote a pair of blog posts ( here and here ) on the early days of the microservices boom. The industry was rushing toward distributed systems like they were the answer to everything. My argument then: distributed systems offer real power, but the monolith has a tax too, and jumping to distributed systems too early introduces a massive operational burden you probably aren't ready to pay. A decade later, the pendulum is swinging back. We're seeing a wave of high-profile "un-