It’s “a possible strategy”, and whether the strategy is appropriate depends on the particulars of your service. > A monolith easily achieves 10x throughput of

It’s “a possible strategy”, and whether the strategy is appropriate depends on the particulars of your service. > A monolith easily achieves 10x throughput of what microservices will do on the same hardware. If we’re gonna talk about unwarranted assumptions, this one takes the cake. I’ve seen services spun up where the resources to run them simply didn’t exist in our data centers. As monoliths, their throughput was effectively zero. The cost tradeoff was “buy bigger servers and wait until they arrive” versus “spend engineering resources and stop buying bigger servers.” Again—this is going to depend on the particulars. The better answer is not necessarily obvious.