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+1

I realized this one day when I was drawing some nice sequence diagrams and presenting it to a senior and he said "But who's ensuring the sequence?". You'll never ask this question in a single threaded system.

Having said that, these things are unavoidable. The expectations from a system are too great to not have distributed systems in picture.

Monoliths are so hard to deploy. It's even more problematic when you have code optimized for both sync cpu intensive stuff and async io in the same service. Figuring out the optimal fleet size is also harder.

I'd love to hear some ways to address this issue and also not to have microservice bloat.



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