47 Microservices for 2 RPS?!
A lead architect wants to carve a rock-solid monolith into 47 tiny microservices… even though the app barely sees 2 requests per second. This r/softwarearchitecture post sparked a classic showdown: are we really solving performance problems or just chasing architectural bragging rights?
The video punches through raw throughput vs. organizational boundaries, explores tricks to scale a monolith, and asks whether the overhead of dozens of services ever pays off. Spoiler: sometimes keeping things simple is the smartest scalability hack.
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