I think your comment makes perfect sense. However, at their scale and with their engineering resources, I can only imagine an attitude of "we can make this wor

I think your comment makes perfect sense. However, at their scale and with their engineering resources, I can only imagine an attitude of "we can make this work" (the monolith) is easier to justify. The same goes for the micro-services approach (except here you have to justify changing what has been working so far?) I'd love to read more about the history behind this approach at Instagram.