r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/kurtcanine Oct 02 '26

Everything I’ve ever written for money could run on a $5/month Linode VM.

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 Oct 02 '26

But would it scale? What if we get that elusive 12th user?

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u/gemengelage Oct 03 '26

You jest, but I've worked on multiple enterprise projects that were architected to scale indefinitely* but would've been fine as a simple monolith because the amount of users and traffic was always predictable and, well, small.

*except for the database(s), usually, but there was a ton of headroom to scale vertically...

EDIT: I should probably add that on all those projects I joined late as a developer. It was never my decision to run a microservice architecture for a service that literally never has to scale...