I'm currently involved with a "micro service system", that has very clear, legal requirements, so we know exactly, how much load to expect. At most, a few thousand users, never more than 100 working at the same time on very simple business objects. Complex business logic, but technically almost trivial. But we have to use a super distributed architecture for scalability....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you already got an answer for that though when you asked about it.

Could be either "oh you're right let's not do that", or "because we want to design for horizontal scalability rather than vertical in case the demand grows later", or "the client has requested and it's paying for this feature" and so on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's because they think it's what you're doing for a large project. Simple as that. There's no future demand, the client doesn't care, and I'm not right because they said so.