This article was originally published on tech.7mind.de When I joined 7Mind a year ago, I was hired partially to help migrate the existing system away from micro-services towards a new monolithic Elixir application. This decision was made before I had joined, but having worked in a company that went very all-in on micro-services before, I welcomed it. But first, some background. As with many older startups, their initial system was not designed to handle whatever the day-to-day is now, many years later.

Moving a legacy system from micro-services towards a new monolithic Elixir application

    • msageEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hear hear.

      Though, after many professional years, I concluded you just need people at your level of knowledge around you.

      You can do basically anything, even trendy stuff, when you deal with people who actually understand the technology.

      When I listen to folk yapping about stuff I consider basic, and suddenly adding ‘service discovery’ into the mix, and see no connection between the topics discussed, I know I’m in for a bad time.

  • funbikeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This sounds like vertical slicing (incl bounded contexts), which is my preferred architecture for a monolith. It gives you the flexibility to pivot architecture more easily.

    I suggest you look into Evolutionary Architecture, with can help keep vertical slicing

    We’ve gone all-in with SSR+FaaS (aka JAMStack) with multiple projects. You get similar benefits to microservices, but without the complexity. However, hosting can be more expensive under high loads.