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Hi ! thanks for the sharing the post. just a quick question . was the architecture same from the beginning ? more specifically microservices ? or did you made a move from a monolithic application to this new architecture .

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I'm not sure how to best characterize it in the very beginning (and I wasn't there) but in the 3.5 years I've been here it has largely been smaller services -- even down to things like the app's nav is its own service. More recently I think we've really embraced microservices (the number of deployables has grown ~2x in the last year).

Personally I think after 5 (and definitely 10) engineers working on a single app I would look at whether you can break it down into independent services.

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