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by pylon 794 days ago
Having 1000+ services seems like an overkill for an ecommerce company. I certainly hope they aren't doing something silly like a service for each payment type or a service to manage inventory and another service to manage orders.
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I have no clue if it's too much but allegro is biggest ecomerce website in Poland and it works amazingly. I'm currently in Spain and I'm forced to use Amazon and oh lord - I can't event star to wrap my head aourd how on earth people can use that crap - it is slow AF, it's search functionality is abysmal and filtering results almost doesn't. exist... o_X
I've worked on many projects with far more services and it's often because of environments.

e.g. we had a process where every PR would spin up a full environment for automation and manual testing to work from.

Amazon probably has 10,000 services or more.