47 Microservices… for 2 Requests Per Second?!
A lead architect is itching to carve a perfectly happy monolith into 47 microservices—despite the app only seeing about two requests per second. This video (and the original Reddit post) digs into whether this is a genuine scaling play or just microservice FOMO, walking through traffic stats, team size, and the hidden costs of over-splitting.
Rather than blindly chasing distributed dreams, the takeaway here is to weigh real bottlenecks and business value. If you’re not elbow-deep in scaling pain, a simpler, well-architected monolith may still be your best friend.
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