Operational Headcount
A well-architected monolith can often be operated by one or two DevOps engineers for the whole application. A less mature microservice environment needs roughly one SRE for every 5 to 10 services. A mature microservice environment needs ro…
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A well-architected monolith can often be operated by one or two DevOps engineers for the whole application. A less mature microservice environment needs roughly one SRE for every 5 to 10 services. A mature microservice environment needs roughly one SRE for every 10 to 15 services. Service boundaries are operational commitments as well as technical boundaries. Microservices require dedicated platform and operations capacity. Unfunded microservice operations costs appear as slower delivery, outages, and burnout.