TL;DR
A Reddit saga unfolds as a lead architect insists on tearing a perfectly stable monolith into 47 microservices—despite the app only handling about 2 requests per second. The community’s split between “microservices for the win” and “why fix what isn’t broken?” perfectly captures the ongoing tug-of-war over when and why to break things apart.
It isn’t really about raw traffic; it’s about organizational scale, team autonomy and perceived future needs. Before you spin up dozens of services, weigh the added complexity and maintenance cost against actual business value.
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