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by dastbe 3557 days ago
Why? I'm assuming their highish engineer/service ratio is because their services do less individually.

Anecdotally, I've worked on services that ran tens of thousands of instances across the world. You build the tools to manage them and it works very well.
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Scarblac 3557 days ago
> Why?

People talk about interpreted languages being slow sometimes, now your program is divided over 1700 separate servers and instead of keeping variables in memory you have to serialize and send them over the network all the time.

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softawre 3557 days ago
It's not the number of instances that he's talking about, it's the number of images.

Microservices can go to far. I'm very thankful for this video.

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dastbe 3557 days ago
The # of services vs # of engineers isn't really bad though; you just need the tools to make the commonalities between services easy.
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