Kinda reminds me of how you "need to have a horizontally scaling database setup because 1 million rows a day are impossible to handle via a normal database serv

Kinda reminds me of how you "need to have a horizontally scaling database setup because 1 million rows a day are impossible to handle via a normal database server" people really underestimate the power that vertical scaling can achieve, along with the long tail that microservices can bring. (The more calls between services you need to handle x, the more likely it is that you get into a case where one call takes exceptionally long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjC9bFjeR1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjC9bFjeR1k