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by rchiang 1486 days ago
Maybe some other numbers are more relevant? This blog post from April 2022 mentions 1000+ services:

  https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/continuous-delivery-at-airbnb-6ac042bc7876
And this video from May 2017 mentions 1B daily events (for whatever they define as an event):

  https://youtu.be/70luTZU-D3E?t=102
It wouldn't surprise me if they're storing calls between microservices as "events" and they're likely logging a lot of both user data and internal services data, but that's purely a guess.
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Interesting article (first one).

It seems like more and more companies (looking at AWS and Netflix directly) seem to deploy ~1k micro services.

I work in a team where we manage ~14 micro services (per environment - dev, staging and production - max ~42) and find it complicated to manage and monitor...