[chrisseaton]

Not sure they're bragging about it - they're just stating it as context for their blog post.

And is 2000 moving parts too many? How many moving parts do you need to run a bank? I can imagine they're having to comply with ~2000 legislation clauses, for example. Isn't that just the complexity of their domain?

[andrewingram]

From my understanding the approach to microservices was more or less a day 1 thing due to some of the early engineering hires being very experienced with them; so the number of them was comparatively high pretty early on.