The Distributed Monolith and Chatty Services

1. Why the Anti-Patterns Matter

These two anti-patterns appear in two ways. The direct way is by name: "what is a distributed monolith?" The other way is a diagram, where somebody shows you a flawed design and asks what is wrong with it.

Both need 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 come from the boundary mistakes covered earlier in this module.