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So are you assuming that your service will never grow? Because vertical scaling up is nice and easy as long as you know the limits but once you cross a threshol

So are you assuming that your service will never grow? Because vertical scaling up is nice and easy as long as you know the limits but once you cross a threshold, not matter how many CPUs you throw at a problem it just won't scale. Your senior lead seems to be anticipating that and preparing in advance.

systematical 6y ago
Who assumes a system will never grow? No one. I'm looking at the 10-year-old legacy system we are replacing. That tells me a lot. Where its been, why its that way, and a lot about where it's likely to go in the next 2-3 years. Its function is actually being reduced in this rewrite. I'm not against the microservice idea. I just rather focus on solving the problems the legacy system had. None of those had to do with scaling. They were related to a certain federal agency changing their mind every 2-4 years and really poor coding practices. A microservice with kafka and k8 don't really solve those issues.