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Andrew Fong
11/18/2022, 7:58 PMFor people that run microservice architectures whats the typical engineer to service ratio you’re seeting?
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Andrew Marine
11/18/2022, 8:05 PMAt my company we have a ratio of ~ 1:7 - 1:8 or so for 500+ services. I haven't tallied up the exact service count in a while but it is somewhere around there. FWIW our platform engineer to product engineer ratio is about 1:10.
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Alex Perkins
11/18/2022, 9:55 PMMan, is this typical? That platform to product engineer ratio seems low to me. I haven’t really seen how teams are structured like this though so maybe that’s common
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Andrew Marine
11/18/2022, 10:04 PMNo idea how typical it is, but we have 1 platform team that is roughly equal in size to our product teams. BTW that ratio includes managers and stuff as well. Basically anyone under the engineering head count umbrella.
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Alex Perkins
11/18/2022, 10:37 PMMakes sense. Good to know
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Andrew Fong
11/19/2022, 1:52 AMi was trying to estimate prod complexity, less the platform hc, fwiw i think platform hc should be way more like 20:1 product:platform
Andrew Fong
11/19/2022, 1:53 AMunless you include things like core services (core business logic that is company specific etc in platform) that tends to seem to be not how folks are defining it though
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Andrew Marine
11/19/2022, 1:58 AMThe specific hc ratios are probably going vary a bit company to company depending on total hc. At a larger company (>200 engineers) our ratio is probably pretty high. We have < 100 total eng hc. your mileage may vary of course depending on your stack and complexity of your tech problem and what not.
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