TL;DR A lead architect wants to rip a perfectly stable monolith into 47 microservices—even though the app barely handles 2 requests per second. This Reddit thread from r/softwarearchitecture ignited a classic Dev vs. Architect showdown: real scaling needs versus over-engineering.
At its heart, the debate isn’t about raw throughput but about organizational boundaries, team autonomy and where value really lies. Do you chop up code just because you can, or only when the business (and users) actually demand it?
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