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I've seen very few posts here mention horizontal scalability like you did. In my mind, it's the first and foremost reason to consider a distributed rewrite ove

I've seen very few posts here mention horizontal scalability like you did. In my mind, it's the first and foremost reason to consider a distributed rewrite over a monolith. I would bitch long and hard if someone was suggesting the transition from monolith to micro-services without the metrics to prove horizontal scalability was becoming an issue.

marcyb5st 6y ago
Fully agree. Another point worth considering is costs. Cloud providers now let you use ephemeral VMs which are amazing in terms of value. If you can identify some parts of your system that use too much in terms of resources you can get quite some nice costs savings by wrapping that around a microservice and deploy it in said cheap VMs.