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by bluefirebrand 413 days ago
> scaling high traffic services separately

This is a great optimization once you have high traffic services

Building this way before you have any traffic at all is a great way to build the wrong abstractions because your assumptions about where your load will be might be wrong

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Microservices are a technical solution to regional availability and pairing problems, and they start with a spreadsheet telling you when to make them based on requirements vs. cost. They're slow, expensive threads you should have a really good reason to use.

> Building this way before you have any traffic at all is a great way to build the wrong abstractions

These services only make sense to think about within specific traffic contexts. It'd be impossible to build the right abstraction.