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		ken47 on Sept 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How we ended up with microservices There's absolutely no reason why you can't timeout within your monolith.

tomchristie on Sept 10, 2015 [–]

Indeed. But you can't guard against catastrophic system failures (out of memory, disk, processor time, corruptions) in the way you can with independant services.

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