Comment by crazygringo
14 hours ago
Scalability isn't just about CPU.
It's just as much about storage and IO and memory and bandwidth.
Different types of sites have completely different resource profiles.
14 hours ago
Scalability isn't just about CPU.
It's just as much about storage and IO and memory and bandwidth.
Different types of sites have completely different resource profiles.
Microservice is not a solution for scalability. There are multiple options for building scalable software, even a monolith or a modular monolith with proper loadbalanced setup will drastically reduce the complexity of microservice and get massive scale. Only bottleneck will be db.
Microservices take an organizational problem:
The teams don't talk, and always blame each other
and adds distributed systems and additional organizational problems:
Each team implements one half of dozens of bespoke network protocols, but they still don't talk, and still always blame each other. Also, now they have access to weaponizable uptime and latency metrics, since because each team "owns" the server half of one network endpoint, but not the client half.