[drol3]

I am working for a company that has moved from 3 to 15 backend developers and 25 to 50 services over the last year.

The amount of services is really quite meaninglessness compared to the amount of developers. As with anything the efficiency good down as the amount of people goes up. There is no way that 2000 people can agree on anything. So most likely there is lots and lots of overlap.

You could probably refactor some of this duplication out, but by the time you would be done new duplication would have emerged. Keeping many people in sync is just difficult :)

Anyway the point is that 2200 services is meaningless without telling how many employees are working on said services :)