The Distributed Monolith and Chatty Services

1. Why Anti-Patterns Are Interview Material

Interviewers test anti-patterns in two ways. The direct way is by name: "What is a distributed monolith?" The ambush way is a diagram. They show you a flawed design and ask what is wrong with it.

Both forms test the same skill. Can you recognize a microservices system that has kept all the costs and lost all the benefits? The two named anti-patterns in this lesson account for most real-world microservices regret. Both grow from the boundary mistakes covered earlier in this module.