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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by karmakaze on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:00PM (#18962112)
> If [...] easy enough to work on it, you don't need to radically change its structure.

This is precisely the point. When you have a large number of developers all working on the same deployment unit, it isn't easy to work on. A mono-repo is orthogonal to microservices.

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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by scirocco on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:23PM (#18962272)
And being difficult to work on means dependencies with other teams, making changes slow. This slows down innovation speed and enables competitors to launch competing services faster. So there's the business need of microservices :)
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