Tagged: boundaries

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Where does the OLTP boundary belong now?

Analytics platforms ship serverless Postgres and the old wall between transactional and analytical estates is now a product decision. A review checklist.

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How big should a service be?

Size is the wrong ruler. Services are sized by the decisions they hide and the team that must hold them, not by lines of code.

#design#services#boundaries

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When does a monolith end?

Not at a size. At a set of observable symptoms that network boundaries would actually treat. The checklist we use, with the false positives labeled.

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