In this world of micro-services and Kubernetes, it was nice to be working on a system built as a monolith running in a plain old EC2 instance. But recently, during load testing, the service we’ve been working on as been showing signs of stress — timing out, maxing out the CPU — and it’s become clear that s... lmika.org

@lmika I guess it’s also nice that this is somehow (by now) a fairly well-trodden pattern for teams? I imagine it might have been a much more risky proposition even a few years back.