I hear Sam Newman’s - Monoliths to Microservices is worth a read.

  • @cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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    52 years ago

    They mainly make sense if you have insane amounts of traffic and/or are a giant company with a lot of independent teams.

    For most companies using microservices, these are not true.

    • @entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      22 years ago

      They also make sense if you have heavily uneven traffic, either time-wise, service-wise, or both. Being able to scale up/down individual components is the point