--- title: You Want Modules, Not Microservices | daily.dev description: The post discusses the concept of modules and how they are similar to microservices. It also explores the reasons behind the hype around microservices and the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-want-modules-not-microservices-rxfwob0vh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You Want Modules, Not Microservices | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the concept of modules and how they are similar to microservices. 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pasujemito** · 1 upvotes > IMHO, Microservices may be easy to maintain while they're decoupled from their "single responsibility", yet when building complex applications you need mono repos isolating dependencies abstracting micro modules **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > Exactly, microservices are nothing more than one of the ways to implement Bounded Contexts (DDD eric evans). > > And because of that you can easily just write Big Ball of Mud but in microservices just as you would in monolith. > > Quite often modular monolith makes more sense than microservices e.g. because of no communication overhead between them ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Governing Security in the Age of Infinite Signal](https://daily.dev/posts/governing-security-in-the-age-of-infinite-signal-qhihbir44) · Snyk · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government](https://daily.dev/posts/no-one-has-a-good-plan-for-how-ai-companies-should-work-with-the-government-nkajqoze1) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/you-want-modules-not-microservices-rxfwob0vh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"You Want Modules, Not Microservices","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-want-modules-not-microservices-rxfwob0vh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-want-modules-not-microservices-rxfwob0vh"},"datePublished":"2023-04-06T21:41:51.464Z","dateModified":"2024-04-15T08:42:04.491Z","description":"The post discusses the concept of modules and how they are similar to microservices. 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