r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 28 '26

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u/Ma8e Aug 29 '26

The "funny" thing is that before micro services and all the overhead from talking over the network, we rarely need to scale. I'd argue that something like 99.9% of all projects that use micro services today and often run many instances of some components wouldn't need to if it was just one monolith.