microservices were invented 15 years ago in a closed room meeting by executives at microsoft google and amazon to increase cloud billing costs and juice their revenue numbers
they put men on the moon with a pencil and calculator
you dont need 60 microservices to load a webpage
Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure
his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy
what he revealed:
> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
> sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
> DynamoDB SQS for async provisioning
> Packer SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale
Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers
this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free
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