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Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by Akronymus on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:51AM (#32001869)
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

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Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr... by iamflimflam1 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @11:00AM (#32001993)
I’ve faced this a number of times “we think we’ll have scaling issues” when they are running on the lowest possible database tier on offer. I think people just don’t understand how much power they actually have at their fingertips without needing anything esoteric.
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