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# Microservices? Monoliths? An Annoying Discussion!


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 4 (500)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/970-microservices-monoliths-an-annoying-discussion)

## Description

Microservices aimed to address the issues with monoliths. But do they? Criticizing microservices is now trendy - does that mean monoliths were the right solution? The ongoing debate is frustrating and highlights a fundamental misunderstanding of software architecture. This talk shows that microservices as well as monoliths are two options to implement systems and their modules with different trade-offs. The real problem is which modules to split a system into - and that needs to be solved for microservices as well as monoliths.

## Speaker

### [Eberhard Wolff](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@eberhard-wolff)

Head of Architecture, SWAGLab


## Related talks at this congress

- [Modulith Instead of Monolith - Pragmatically Towards Microservices](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/85-modulith-instead-of) — Hendrik Lösch
- [Modularity: Let's dig deeper](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/409-modularity-let-s-dig) — Pratishtha Pandey
- [Autonomous microservices with event-driven architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/232-autonomous) — Florian Lenz
- [Beyond micro-services, embrace composable architecture !](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/341-beyond-micro) — Loïc Carbonne