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We Thought Microservices Would Scale Us Faster. Instead, It Slowed the Team and Burned Money
Software Architecture & Scaling3 min• 4 days ago

We Thought Microservices Would Scale Us Faster. Instead, It Slowed the Team and Burned Money

Microservices sounded like the right move. Everyone was doing it. Six months later, delivery slowed, costs went up, and simple bugs took days to trace. Here’s what actually went wrong and how we fixed it without blowing up the product.

engineering decisionssaas infrastructurebackend scalability+2 more
4 days ago