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by t0b1 1134 days ago
That reminds me of a somewhat funny story. I was listening to a presentation about a startup with about 10 people as you mentioned doing hospital digitalization (gist of it seemed to be sending patient data from one doctor to another). They explained that they wanted to choose a “robust” architecture so they chose microservices (kubernetes and all). I thought that was a bit odd for something hosted at a hospital locally especially because they had like 7 or so services (and maybe even two databases but not sure on that one). Well, we later asked them how much data they were even handling and (after a bit of side-stepping) they said it was around 200mb excluding images. That was my “but why?” moment. Apparently you need 7 services to have a web frontend for 200mb of data with most of it probably never accessed and hospitals can suddenly get three new floors overnight.