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		swah on July 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I bet you over-engineered your startup More or less what the article said: > Start merging services until you come to the bare essentials that have to be discrete. He's giving an heuristic for finding the right granularity of services - that is what is up for criticism, IIUC. I totally agree with you, start "monolithic", SQL + a lightweight Python web framework for most simple apps.

z92 on July 10, 2012 [–]

> Start merging services until you come to the bare essentials that have to be discrete.

I thing GP advised to: start with a monolithic system and then split up the services as your system grows and as you feel the need.

That sounds more solid advice.

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