Imagine a lead architect deciding to carve up a rock-solid monolith into 47 tiny microservices—all for an app that barely sees 2 requests per second. That eyebrow-raising proposal sparked a r/softwarearchitecture debate over whether microservices are really about scaling or just riding the latest hype (or even office politics).
The video dives into why you might (or might not) fracture a monolith, covering requests-per-second realities, organizational scale, pure performance needs, and where real business value comes into play.
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