July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
526 pages
11h 42m
English
So far in the chapter, we have mainly focused our analysis on the x-axis of the scale cube. We saw how it represents the easiest and most immediate way to distribute the load of an application, also improving its availability. In the following section, we are now going to focus on the y-axis of the scale cube, where applications are scaled by decomposing them by functionality and service. As we will learn, this technique allows us to scale not only the capacity of an application, but also, and most importantly, its complexity.
The term monolithic might make us think of a system without modularity, where all the services of an application are interconnected and almost indistinguishable. However, ...
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