One Lambda or Many?

The common wisdom today seems to be that monolithic code is bad and that micro-services are good, but there is cause to disagree with this. Monoliths are usually simpler to develop and manage than a network of services, and in many cases significantly faster to deploy. Dividing code and data into multiple machines always introduces a huge amount of complexity related to synchronisation and consistency, which simply does not exist when everything is in a single memory space. Lambda provides many options for breaking down or aggregating processing, and it’s ...