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		jackcosgrove on Jan 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software engineering topics I changed my mind on You can hedge by breaking up your codebase into logical services from the start which own their data sources and controllers. When the time comes to break up into microservices, you separate each service into its own application rather than grouping them in a monolith.

BobbyJo on Jan 24, 2021 [–]

Writing services in a separable manner is, in a sense, writing scalable software.

jackcosgrove on Jan 24, 2021 | [–]

Write the microservice, deploy the monolith. You can save on hosting costs. It's not perfect, no.

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