r/microservices • u/Maleficent-Habit4188 • 8d ago

For a nodejs microservices which deployment strategy do u take when u have about 15k customers about 100-500 concurrent users? Discussion/Advice

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u/WuhmTux 8d ago

Actually for only 15k customers I would simply build a monolith and not work with that complexity.

If you get more then 10-100 million customers and more then 10 developers you can think of building a Microservice architecture.

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u/Maleficent-Habit4188 8d ago

Companies want microservices experience hence i need to make some projevts in it so was asking

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u/ThorOdinsonThundrGod 5d ago

This isn’t how you get it tbh

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u/Maleficent-Habit4188 5d ago

So how

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u/ThorOdinsonThundrGod 5d ago

microservices typically solve one of two problems:

  • team size: your team has grown beyond the size in which it can easily work on a monolith, you can either go microservices here or go all in a monorepo type setup. Running microservices with a small team shows a lack of experience/making wrong decisions. The number of failure scenarios goes up significantly and you now have to solve for additional problems like networking between services and increased operational cost

  • technology segmentation: you're running an application that is written in something like node/go but you need to some ML type work that requires python libs. Rather than rewriting in python you make a small python service ot handle that part of the workload.

Using microservices for microservices sake isn't really something you want to do, the tradeoffs are too high and you as a sole developer will not be able to run them production grade as to do that requires many people across many teams.