Amazon Prime Video made headlines by consolidating their microservices into a monolith and reducing costs by 90%. They're not alone—a growing number of SaaS companies are questioning the microservices-first approach.
The Microservices Promise vs Reality
Five years ago, microservices were the silver bullet for scalability. The promise was compelling:
- Independent deployments
- Technology diversity
- Better fault isolation
- Easier scaling
Reality check: Most teams got the complexity without the benefits.
Why Companies Are Reversing Course
- Operational Overhead
Managing 50+ services requires dedicated DevOps teams, sophisticated monitoring, and complex deployment pipelines.
Segment famously consolidated 140 microservices into a monolith, reducing their infrastructure
