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I've tried searching this and couldn't find anything related to microservices - what is the factoring problem or system that grugbrain is referring to? Is it s

• aahortwwy 4y ago
  They are referring to software structure and decomposition. This is a hard problem that spans architectures; you can have a poorly factored microservice architecture, just as you can have a poorly factored monolith. These two posts from Shopify are good: https://shopify.engineering/deconstructing-monolith-designing-software-maximizes-developer-productivity https://shopify.engineering/deconstructing-monolith-designin... https://shopify.engineering/shopify-monolith https://shopify.engineering/shopify-monolith
• kqr 4y ago
  I think they are talking about modularisation, i.e. breaking the code into somewhat independent units.