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		cpitman on Oct 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The microservices cargo cult It is slightly different, in that it is already a sharded database compared to what the monolith would have.

twic on Oct 7, 2015 [–]

If you've built your microservices on top of multiple databases, then you could have built the same features in a monolith on top of multiple databases. What helped scaling is splitting the database, not splitting the application.

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