System Design

Lesson 08 · 11 min

Monolith, microservices or serverless

How to split a system into parts, and why microservices are not the starting point.

11 minLesson 8 of 10Practice includedAsk AI on any point

The "monolith or microservices" question comes up in every other interview. The right answer almost always starts with "it depends", and then you have to explain on what exactly: team size, scaling needs of individual parts, DevOps maturity.

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