47 Microservices… for 2 Requests Per Second?!

A lead architect wants to break a stable monolith into 47 microservices — even though the app only handles about 2 requests per second. A reddit post from r/softwarearchitecture that perfectly captures the ongoing debate between developers and architects about when to split a monolith. Is it really about scaling? Or something else entirely? 🔗 Kurrent (formely EventStoreDB) https://kurrent.io 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3RKA4vunFAfrfxiJhPEplw?sub_confirmation=1 💥 Join this channel to get access to a private Discord Server and any source code in my videos. 🔥 Join via Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeopinion ✔️ Join via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3RKA4vunFAfrfxiJhPEplw/join 📝 Blog: https://codeopinion.com 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeopinion ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcomartin/ 📧 Weekly Updates: https://mailchi.mp/63c7a0b3ff38/codeopinion 0:00 Requests per Second 2:30 Perspective 3:20 Organizational Scale 5:39 Scaling a Monolith 6:3