04 - Database Design for Modular Monolith: Schema Sharing vs Separation
Design databases for modular monolith: shared schema vs per-context schema trade-offs, managing pseudo-distributed transactions, data access patterns,
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Design databases for modular monolith: shared schema vs per-context schema trade-offs, managing pseudo-distributed transactions, data access patterns, and when to migrate to per-service databases.
What you'll learn
- Shared Schema Advantages
- Shared Schema Disadvantages
- Intra-Module ACID Transactions
- Cross-Module Eventual Consistency
- API Composition
This article is part of the Architecture series on federicocalo.dev.
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➡️ 04 - Database Design for Modular Monolith: Schema Sharing vs Separation
https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/database-design-modular-monolith-schema-pattern
By Federico Calò — Software Developer & Technical Writer