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19 Mar 2024

An editorial illustration of a single sturdy building standing in soft afternoon light with a small outbuilding nearby, suggesting one main structure with a purpose-built annex

Monolith for life, except when not — how we split CloudPrint out of the ORDR Rails app

ORDR is a Rails monolith and will stay one. CloudPrint, the printer microservice, had to live somewhere else — but for the boring physical reason that it talks to a thermal printer in a venue, not because the monolith was failing us. The rule we use: split out only when the constraint forces it.

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Carlos Butler

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