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This is not the first time that an engineer working at a big company thinks they are using a monolith when in reality they are a small team in charge of a single microservice, which in turn is part of a company that definitely does not run a monolith.

Last time it was an aws engineer that worked on route 53, and they dismissed microservices in a startup claiming that in AWS they ran a monolith (as in the r53 dns).

Everything is a monolith if you zoom in enough and ignore everything else. Which I guess you can do when you work on a big company and are in charge of a very specific role.



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