Tightly Coupled Monolith
Changing one module breaks others. No clear boundaries. Every change is high-risk because blast radius is unpredictable.
10 minute read
Tag: Architecture
Premature Microservices
The team adopted microservices without a problem that required them. The architecture may be correctly decomposed, but the operational cost far exceeds any benefit.
7 minute read
Distributed Monolith
Services exist but the boundaries are wrong. Every business operation requires a synchronous chain across multiple services, and nothing can be deployed independently.
8 minute read
Multiple Services Must Be Deployed Together
Changes cannot go to production until multiple services are deployed in a specific order during a coordinated release window.
4 minute read
Refactoring Breaks Tests
Internal code changes that do not alter behavior cause widespread test failures.
2 minute read