Reading List
A collection of reads that resonated with me. Instead of putting somewhere
I’ll never find them again, I park them here. So, at least theoretically, I
at least know where to look.
2023-09-14
Death By A Thousand Microservices #
TL;DR: A monolith will be the right choice for >95% of business, because they’ll just never scale beyond a size where a real distributed system is necessary to keep up with traffic.
Or do you get so many registrations per second that it requires independent horizontal scaling?
The Tyranny of the Marginal User #
Simply put, companies building apps have strong incentives to gain more users, even users that derive very little value from the app.