Microservice or Monolith?

Why not both?

Randal Kamradt Sr
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3 min readNov 24, 2021

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There are lots of reasons that people argue for microservices. But the monolith has one big reason…simplicity. One service that does it all, only one set of source code. The boilerplate associated with a service doesn’t have to be duplicated. And sharing code isn’t a problem.

My previous article on contextual logging required a couple of services, but I didn’t want to…

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