Distributed Systems
You Don't Need Microservices (Yet)
Most teams adopt microservices before they've earned the complexity.
A distributed system is a single system pretending to be many systems. And it will remind you of that at 2AM.
Outline
- The real cost of distributed systems
- Coordination, retries, tracing, partial failure
- When a monolith is faster to build and ship
- The scale threshold where microservices make sense
- Evolution path: monolith → modular monolith → services