Monolith vs Microservices: Stop Starting With Microservices

From a simple monolith to a distributed system, and the exact problem that forces each step.

1. Start simple: one backend, one database
2. The modular monolith
3. When scaling forces a split
4. Service discovery and the API gateway
5. A database per service
6. Sagas: transactions across services
7. Events and message queues
8. Idempotency
9. Rate limits
10. Observability and the CAP theorem
11. Takeaways

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One Bad Request Crashed Everyone: Processes vs Threads

How each one works, where each one bites, and which one to pick.

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