Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Monolith or microservices? The ultimate question

Before commencing development of the Links 'R' Us service, we need to decide whether our system components will be developed as parts of a big, monolithic service or whether we will just bite the bullet and implement a service-oriented architecture right from the start.

While the concept of using microservices does indeed seem enticing from the outside, it comes with a lot of operational overhead. Besides the mental effort required for building and wiring all components together, we would additionally need to worry about questions like the following:

• How does each service get deployed? Are we doing rolling deployments? What about dark or test releases? How easy is it to roll back to a previous ...