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I wonder how many early stage businesses went tits up because they drank the microservice kool-aid and burned valuable engineering cycles that should have been

• dullcrisp 3y ago
  Alternatively how many later stage business failed because all their features were in a Rails monolith that no number of engineers could maintain.
  • rqtwteye 3y ago
    The Rails monolith companies probably have a better chance at adapting than the 50 microservices maintained by 10 devs companies.
    • thimp 3y ago
      This. Just silo the monolith out into tenants. Salesforce, not exactly a small monolith company, did this for a very very long time.
• yen223 3y ago
  I once interviewed at Fast. One of the questions they asked was how to scale up a rate limiter. In my mind I was wondering why you'd ever need to worry about scaling up a rate limiter. The answer apparently was some kind of microservice. The company eventually folded[1]. Turns out the company was burning millions of dollars in hiring + infra, while generating only $600,000 in revenue. [1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-fast https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-fast