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In my experience scaling a monolith just costs more (i.e. hosting costs). Our product, when we started, was quite expensive to run at our high traffic times, bu
by eric_h 10y ago
In my experience scaling a monolith just costs more (i.e. hosting costs). Our product, when we started, was quite expensive to run at our high traffic times, but we were eventually able to cut our costs drastically by breaking certain pieces out into services.
- gjolund 10y agoDepends on the product, but for many startups those additional costs can be crippling. Also, I have found it much easier to onboard a new engineer, give them the requirements for a service and let them go at it. I've been using AWS Lambdas to great effect in this way.
- eric_h 10y agoCertainly, not everything is a nail.