[matt_kantor]

> Your monolith is a distributed system

> If you have a web application with more than one server, you have a distributed system. If you have background job workers, you have a distributed system. If you have a cron job, you have a distributed system. If you talk to Stripe, or send emails through SendGrid, or enqueue something in Redis, or write to a Postgres replica, then you are (I regret to inform you) operating a distributed system.

As soon as you have at least one client talking to your server you have a distributed system.