Blog entries for Wednesday, 01 July 2026

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The Great Architectural Pendulum: Revisiting Microservices vs. Monoliths a Decade Later

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: microservices 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-migrations
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