The conversation in this (overall) thread is dancing around issues of experience,competence, and maturity. And the age ceiling forcefully pushed by people like Paul Graham of this very HN. When your entire engineering team are “senior developers” with 3 years of experience (lol) and most don’t even know what a “linker” does, the fundamental feature of the wunder architecture is obscure and not understood.
Building effective monoliths absolutely demands competent DB experts, schema designers & developers. The problem that microservices solved was the sparsity of this sort of talent when demand overshot supply by orders of magnitude.
(In a way the monoloth vs microservices debates are echoes of the famous impedance mismatch between object graph runtimes and relational tables and DBMSs.)
Building effective monoliths absolutely demands competent DB experts, schema designers & developers. The problem that microservices solved was the sparsity of this sort of talent when demand overshot supply by orders of magnitude.
(In a way the monoloth vs microservices debates are echoes of the famous impedance mismatch between object graph runtimes and relational tables and DBMSs.)