![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been writing Basecamp as a majestic monolith since 2003. It’s a big fat no to distributing your system lest it truly prevents you from doing what really needs to be done. Eliminates as much needless abstraction as you can swing a hammer at. So what is a majestic monolith exactly? It’s an integrated system that collapses as many unnecessary conceptual models as possible. Any monolith worth erecting is worth making majestic! Them be fighting words amongst many programmers! I say don’t just turn the other cheek, but embrace the monolith with pride and a salute! Don’t just accidentally waltz your system into a monolithic design, do so with intent and with your head held high. Having your system described as “monolithic” is usually a point of derision. So allow me to present just one such choice: The Majestic Monolith! But most people do have a choice, and they do have an alternative. What to do when services are down, how to migrate in concert, and all the pain of running many services in the first place.Īs I said, all that pain is worth it when you have no choice. The problem with prematurely turning your application into a range of services is chiefly that it violates the #1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing! At least if you can in any way avoid it.Įvery time you extract a collaboration between objects to a collaboration between systems, you’re accepting a world of hurt with a myriad of liabilities and failure states. But that you shouldn’t run HR like a 50,000-person company when you have 50 seems obvious to most though (with some exceptions). This is true of not just technical patterns, but general organizational approaches too. ![]() I’m sorry, but that’s just not how the tango goes. If I dance like these behemoths, surely I too will grow into one. The patterns that make sense for organizations orders of magnitude larger than yours, are often the exact opposite ones that’ll make sense for you. Where things go astray is when people look at, say, Amazon or Google or whoever else might be commanding a fleet of services, and think, hey it works for The Most Successful, I’m sure it’ll work for me too. In other words, M/SOA fits the organizational shape of very large corporations. (Well, at least in theory, I hear Facebook is having a great time with a monolith, whether it’s majestic or not is a different discussion). Otherwise everyone will step on each other’s feet, and you’ll have to deal with endless merge conflicts. When you reach a certain scale, there simply is no other reasonable way to make coordination of effort happen. ![]() It can evolve independently, at least somewhat, of whatever else the rest of the constellation is doing. Each service can be its own team with its own timeline, staff, and objectives. If you’re Amazon or Google or any other software organization with thousands of developers, it’s a wonderful way to parallelize opportunities for improvement. M/SOA is a prescription to break down an application into many smaller parts, run each of these parts as their own application, and then let the constellation solve the grand problem you really care about. But before we dive into all its glory, let’s first examine its opposite pattern: Micro/services oriented architecture. The Majestic Monolith is one of those patterns. Then there are other patterns that are less about the code and more about how the code is being written, by whom, and within which organization. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a deep repertoire of solutions ready to apply and make your code better every time you hit their context. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. Overall, a nicely managed park with good access to points around Hood River area, including the little town of White Salmon that had a very good grocery store.Some patterns are just about the code. My site was up near the front so didn't hear the trains as much but sometimes could hear trucks on the highway. It would definitely be a white knuckle experience, especially if passing those logging trucks. However I observed people doing it but taking it very slowly. I am certainly glad that I didn't have to take the bridge across towing with the trailer. I came from the east so got off at The Dalles exit and traveled across the Gorge area to Highway 14, then west to the park. Close to a fun Fish Hatchery where you can find a secluded spot (Park near the first Fish Hatchery sign which is just beyond the state park boundary) to take the dog in the water also good place to watch the windsurfers and such. Big dog walk area and usually not busy so could probably throw the ball. ![]()
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