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		qaq on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only... Replacing function call with network call does not really solve any org issues. There is pretty much 0 difference if teams are shipping "modules" for a monolith vs a microservice outside of much simplified CI/CD setup in case of monolith. You can gain some scaling efficiencies from scaling services independently but it's a minor advantage for most projects.

Aeolun on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

> You can gain some scaling efficiencies from scaling services independently

Not necessarily, because if you scale only one of your services all the other services do not benefit at all.

Having microservices would only be better in that instance if they actually consume the resources they are given.

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