> I think a lot of these debates miss the core point, which is stage and context. Yes, a single modern server can handle far more than most people think, and yes, microservices are massively overused. But early teams usually optimize for speed, safety, and predictability rather than perfect efficiency. Cloud + autoscaling is expensive, but it reduces operational risk when traffic is unpredictable and the team is small. Bare metal is great once you understand your workload and failure modes, but it requires real ops discipline that many startups don’t have early on. Same with microservices: a modular monolith with good boundaries gets you very far with far less complexity, and most products never reach the scale where microservices are truly necessary. In practice, the winning approach tends to be: start simple, scale vertically, keep the architecture boring, and only add complexity when real bottlenecks force your hand - not because Twitter or Netflix did it.
Does this look like LLM slop to anybody?
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throwaway150|29 days ago
Does this look like LLM slop to anybody?
A new account created just 2 days ago with not much comment history. And this happens to be their first substantive comment! I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
input_sh|1 month ago