A lot of people seem to underestimate how fast computers are; a lot of times you don't need to scale horizontally, even at "webscale". And even when you do, it's not like you need microservices for that; sometimes you just run a new instance of $app, or spin off one thing to a new service (while similar to "microservices", it's not really the same thing as the bulk remains monolithic).
Right. Then HTTP requests being share-nothing they horizontally scale in a single instance, too. Just spin more cores.
This microservices craze has been mind-boggling. As for many other fashions, it’s excruciatingly difficult to make young or even average senior devs understand it’s bullshit at 90%.
When Netflix does it and the self-appointed expert bloggers praise it, as a CTO or team lead you’re pretty much screwed.
