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lightlazer··on Distributed Systems Reading List
That is a great advice. However if scalability must be introduced later on, it can be really hard as there are many features that have been added to the monolith, and refactoring it to become scalable can be a huge task.

The conditions where the monolith must be converted to a scalable system should be defined as early as possible.

lightlazer··on Spanish soldiers find bodies in Madrid retirement homes
No, we are supposed to contribute meaningful comments so that ideas can be exchanged in a civilized manner.
lightlazer··on The Forgotten Mystery of Inertia
General Relativity states that gravity and acceleration are equivalent, so yes, they cancel out. Unless you look outside you cannot tell whether you are in an elevator standing on ground on Earth (1g), or in space accelerating upwards at 1g.
lightlazer··on A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)
So you are going to try build the Autoverse in Permutation City? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
lightlazer··on What happened to clockless computer chips?
Could asynchronous designs improve performance of future CPUs if and when Moore's Law hits physical limits?