[Rickasaurus]

Recently was looking at a distributed microservice system at a company that thought they would need massive scale, but pivoted from d2c to enterprise b2b and then found out enterprise b2b companies want data separation. They would have been much better off going monolith first and probably actually sticking with a monolith.

[kgeist]

You mean it's easier to shard databases per tenant when it's a monolith?

[crmd]

Data separation in enterprise-land means customers don’t want components that touch their data to be shared with any other customers. So a shared but sharded database is no good. In practice you often run a standalone stack for each customer, including their own database. This pattern is a nightmare from an operational scaling perspective, but that’s part of why enterprises are asked to pay so much.