Sometimes you just need the scalability. I work on a 2 programmer team making a data integration product. There's a whole lot of features, but one is that you c

Sometimes you just need the scalability. I work on a 2 programmer team making a data integration product. There's a whole lot of features, but one is that you can push a button and move like 10 years of ERP data from 1 system to another. This is done as a scalable microservice because running big migration can up our resources like 50X from baseline, and sometimes we're running 5 to 10 at once. Usually we're running 0. Between all services we utilize on average less than a gig of memory, but regularly allocate 10 or even 100s of gigs at once for short periods of time.