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You DON’T Need Microservices for Serverless! 

I want to talk about something that might sound like a contradiction in terms: the serverless monolith. If you’re scratching your head right now, thinking, “Wait, that makes no sense, serverless is for microservices!” then stick with me. I’m going to clear up one of the biggest misconceptions out there and explain why a serverless monolith is actually a valid strategy for building applications. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. What Is a Monolith Anyway? When most people think about a monolith for a… Read More »You DON’T Need Microservices for Serverless! 

Sponsor: Using RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus in your .NET systems? Well, you could just use their SDKs and roll your own serialization, routing, outbox, retries, and telemetry. I mean, seriously, how hard could it be?

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