Dev Tools · 1h ago
Monoliths outperform microservices in cost and speed, says new analysis
A team reduced latency from 800ms to 12ms by switching from microservices to a monolith. Amazon's Prime Video team cut infrastructure costs over 90% by consolidating serverless architecture into a monolith. Shopify's monolith handles 32 million requests per minute, proving scale is achievable without distributed systems.
Meridian48 take
The article makes a strong case against microservices hype, but the choice depends on team size and growth stage—monoliths aren't always the answer.
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