I think there are plenty of examples of teams that hit that cliff and had to rewrite. I am trying to remember specific articles. Counter-argument: I think stack

I think there are plenty of examples of teams that hit that cliff and had to rewrite. I am trying to remember specific articles. Counter-argument: I think stackoverflow hit a cliff, and remained monolithic, but that was several years ago [1] (sure they have a ton of servers, but they appear to be classic cache+web-server+database). There was another, maybe Instagram, that was monolithic and had to figure out how to shard their DB overnight. [1] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-hardware-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha... Also, I don't think your post deserved a down-vote.