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> If you’re going with a microservice: A Kubernetes cluster A load balancer Multiple compute instances for running the app and hosting the K8S cluster Try runn
by MetaWhirledPeas 5y ago
> If you’re going with a microservice:
A Kubernetes cluster
A load balancer
Multiple compute instances for running the app and hosting the K8S cluster
Try running a high-traffic high-functionality website without something equivalent to this. What's this magical single computer you'll be running it all on? You'll need a cluster of servers on a rack somewhere, managed the old fashioned way. You'll need equivalent tools to deploy to them and monitor them.
I think what this article should be getting at is that low-traffic sites shouldn't start with microservices, and maybe that's true. But if you're trying to build a business that scales rapidly, you want to be ready to scale your website from day one.
- lowbloodsugar 5y agodoes stackoverflow count as high-traffic, high-functionality? pretty sure most people here would be very happy for their startup to have that level of traffic. it's no longer a single computer, sure, but, last time I read about it, it was monolithic.
- MetaWhirledPeas 5y agoStack Overflow is an example of a website with predictable traffic patterns. There's no Black Friday for Stack Overflow.