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I probably agree more than this comment might suggest, but I think that you run into organizational dynamics limits before you run out of vertical scaling limit

I probably agree more than this comment might suggest, but I think that you run into organizational dynamics limits before you run out of vertical scaling limits. Shipping a monolith worked on by 250+ devs in 30 teams is slow due to the coordination needed as compared to 30 teams shipping 50-75 services. Vertical scaling can take you really, really far operationally.

BinaryIgor 1y ago
That's the strongest argument I can see; once you can get above 5 - 10 teams, you run into the organizational issues. But again, most systems will never be there ;)
3uler 1y ago
I've always maintained that microservices are more for scaling people than scaling systems.