Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you switch to micro services?

📰 Hacker News · drbojingle

I've been under the assumption (and feel free to correct me) that microservices are primarily for team scaling. Yet whenever I look around the internet I fail to find good data showing me the size of a team when they switched to microservices vs how successful/how much they liked it or w/e. So, feel free to provide any commentary but, if you've worked on a team that switched to microservices I would appreciate it greatly if you could tell me: - how many people worked on the back-end simultaneously when you made the switch - your feelings about it at the time - amount of time passed since then - how many people work on the back-end simultaneously now - how you feel about it now I want to see if there are any trends. I'm expecting that anyone who tried it with a team of 5 had a hard time and anyone that tried with 50 had a good time but I'm curious to see if there's a clear cut off which dictates that "if you try micro-services while your team only

Published 21 Jan 2019
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