Tag: post-mortem
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The Modular Monolith Revival – Balancing Scalability and Simplicity
THE WEEKLY RADAR The Context For the better part of a decade, microservices have dominated architecture conversations, promising infinite scalability and team autonomy. Yet, rampant service proliferation has exposed painful trade-offs: elevated latency from inter-service chatter, mounting operational overhead, and fractured data consistency. Recent industry feedback shows small-to-medium teams recoiling from these costs. Instead, many…
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Microservices Patterns: Scalability vs. Complexity
The Weekly Radar The Context Microservices have evolved from a buzzword into a de facto standard for building large-scale distributed systems. Recent analyses highlight patterns like Saga orchestration, circuit breakers, and event-driven meshes as key enablers of independent service deployment and fault isolation. Yet these gains come with operational overhead—CNCF surveys show 58% of teams…