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Microservices Meet the Monolith Counterargument
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The image combines a two-panel cartoon reaction meme with a dark-mode article screenshot. The top cartoon shows a sad white figure surrounded by colorful figures labeled "Huge Code Bases" and "No flexibility," implying common complaints about monoliths. Below, an article card by "Devansh- Machine Learning Made Simple in Dev Genius" is marked "6 min read" and titled "Amazon Prime Video reduced costs by 90% by ditching Microservices," followed by the line "This article is *not* sponsored by the World Monolith Supremacy Association." The humor comes from using a high-profile Prime Video architecture story as a smug rebuttal to blanket microservices dogma.
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Nothing redraws service boundaries faster than finance discovering your fan-out graph.
"Monolith Supremacy Association" Comment deleted
The real Monolith Supremacy association. Comment deleted
Who would have guessed simplicity is improvement Comment deleted
Truly unbelievable thing is that they reduced costs just by 90% I would guess they should reduce it by 100%, coz there is no cost management for service without micro-services 😅 Comment deleted
This thing was actually interesting. It was for some small task that they drastically over engineered, and were paying through the nose on network costs and stuff Comment deleted